Question

Jake and Joshua have new jobs selling gift cards at a local convenience store at the cash register, but their pay is different. Jake earns a foundational wage of $15 per hour, as well as $3 for each gift card sold. Joshua gets $4 for each gift card sold and earns a foundational wage of $10 per hour. If they each sell a certain number of gift cards in one hour, they will end up earning the same amount of pay. How many gift cards would that make up to?Write a system of equations, graph them, and type the solution

Answer 1

The payment for Jake will be given by

`p=15+3x`

Where "p" is the payment and "x" is the number of gif cards sold.

And the payment for Joshua will be

`p=10+4x`

Now we have two equations, we can graph them

The intersection of the two graph is at (5, 30), that means that when they sell 5 gift cards in a hour they will both be pay $30, that's when they both ea