Question

An artist receives royalties for all digital downloads of his music. For the first 10,000 downloads, the artist receives $10,000. He receives $12,500 for the next 10,000 downloads, $15,000 for the next 10,000 downloads and so on. How much money will he receive if his music is downloaded 500,000 times?

Answer 1

Explanation:

This is a linear relationship. We know this because as the number of songs increases by 10,000 the amount of money increases $2500. We can use that relationship in a proportion, which is a method used to solve problems involving directly proportional numbers.

If we arrange our information such that the dollars earned are on the top of the fraction and the number of songs that need to be downloaded to earn that amount of money is on the bottom of the fraction, here is what we have:

`(2500)/(10,000)`. This means that the artist receives $2500 for every 10,000 downloads. Keeping in that pattern, we can find out how much money he will earn when 500,000 downloads are completed, assuming that the amount he earns per 10,000 songs doesn't change.

`(2500)/(10000)=(x)/(500000)` and cross multiply to get

10,000x = 1250000000 and divide to get

x = 125,000

That is the amount that he will earn from 500,000 downloads.

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