Irma and Kate have summer jobs selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door, but their
compensation plans are different. Irma earns a base wage of $15 per hour, as well as $1 for
every subscription that she sells. Kate gets $2 per subscription sold, in addition to a base
wage of $6 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? How much would
each one earn?
If Irma and Kate sell
subscriptions in an hour, they will each earn $