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A salesperson earns $99 per day, plus a 9% sales commission. Find a function that expresses her earnings as a function of sales, and use it to compute her earnings if the total sales were $999. The salesperson would take home $____ for the day?

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Answer: The salesperson would take home $1088.01 for the day

Explanation:

Let x represent the salesperson's total sales per day.

A salesperson earns $99 per day, plus a 9% sales commission. This means that in a day in which the salesperson makes a total sales of x dollars, the total amount that he would earn is

99 + 0.09x

Therefore, the function that expresses her earnings as a function of sales is

99 + 0.09x

if the total sales were $999, then the amount that the salesperson would take home for the day is

99 + 0.99 × 999

= $1088.01

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