Question

A semiconductor manufacturing company employs 1,000 people. The average weekly salary of each employee is $750.

Select the graph that correctly shows the total cost to the company of paying its employees during a year.

Answer 1

Graph A is the correct choice.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the number of weeks.

We have been given that a semiconductor manufacturing company employs 1,000 people. The average weekly salary of each employee is $750.

Let us find the weekly salary for 1000 employees by multiplying 1000 by $750.

`\text{The weekly salary for 1,000 employees}=1,000* \$750`

`\text{The weekly salary for 1,000 employees}=\$750,000`

Let us find amount of salaries after 52 weeks as 1 year equals 52 weeks.

`\text{The amount of salaries after 52 weeks for 1,000 employees}=52*\$750,000`

`\text{The amount of salaries after 52 weeks for 1,000 employees}=\$39000000`

Since at week 0, the salaries for 1000 employees will be also 0, so point (0,0) will be on the line of our graph.

Now let see which of our given graphs has point (0,0) and (52,39000000).

We can see that graph A has y-value 39 million on x equals 52, therefore, Graph A is the correct choice.