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Billy and Alvin have summer jobs selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door, but their compensation plans are different. Billy earns a base wage of $15 per hour, as well as $3 for every subscription that he sells. Alvin gets $4 per subscription sold, in addition to a base wage of $10 per hour. If they each sell a certain number of subscriptions in an hour, they will end up earning the same amount. How many subscriptions would that be?Write a system of equations, graph them, and type the solution.

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Let they sell a subscription of x newpaper.

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15+3x=4x+10

5=x

Thus number of subscription sold is 5.

The graph is:

Billy and Alvin have summer jobs selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door, but-example-1
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