Question

Aaliyah is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She makes a base pay of $70 each day and then is paid a $1.25 commission for every computer sale she makes. Write an equation for P,P, in terms of x,x, representing Aaliyah's total pay on a day on which she sells xx computers.

Answer 1

p = 1.25x + 70

Explanation:

We know she makes $70 each day and we know she makes $1.25 for each computer she sells.

With that we can add it into an equation because we can add 70 + 1.25, but the amount for each computer she sells in unknown so we give it an x which makes it 1.25x.

So, we do 1.25x + 70, but the amount total is missing so that is our p.

This finally completes our equation, p = 1.25x + 70 or 1.25x + 70 = p