Question

Carson is a salesman at an insurance company. He receives a monthly salary of $1,011.00 and a $168.00 commission on each policy he sells. If Carson receives his commission check at the end of the month along with his salary check, which of the following functions can be used to determine his total pay for the month?

(Let x represent the number of policies sold and f(x) represent the total amount of pay for the month.)

Answer 1

`f(x)=1,011+168x`

Explanation:

f(x) represents the total pay, so put that on one side of the equation. The total amount is the salary check and the commissions check, so you need to add those. So far, we have:

`f(x)=1,011+168`

He is payed $168 per policy, so we need to multiply the amount of policies sold by the pay per policy. Since we don't know how many policies he sold, we use x to represent the unknown number of policies:

`168*x\\168x`

Insert into the equation we made before:

`f(x)=1,011+168x`

Done.