Question

Your weekly base salary is $150. You earn $20 for each phone you taht you sell. The company policy is that as a part-time employee , the maximum you can earn each week is $950

Write and solve an inequality that represents the number of cell phones you can sell each week.

Answer 1

You can sell at least 40 phones each week.

Explanation:

Given that:

Weekly base salary = $150

Earning on each phone = $20

Maximum amount that can be earned each week = $950

Let,

m be the number of phones.

20m + 150 ≤ 950

20m ≤ 950 - 150

20m ≤ 800

Dividing both sides by 20

`(20m)/(20)\leq (800)/(20)`

m ≤ 40

Hence,

You can sell at least 40 phones each week.