Question

You are a sales clerk in a clothing store. You receive a salary of $320 per week plus a 5% commission on all sales. Write an equation to represent your weekly salary. (Let y equal the weekly salary and x equal the amount of sales.) What are the slope and y-intercept of your equation?

Answer 1

slope: 0.05

y-intercept: 320

Explanation:

y is the total weekly salary and x is the sales

there is a constant salary of $320, which will be the constant in the equation.

y = mx + b

y = mx + 320

we know there is a 5% commission on all sale, which we can convert to the fraction 0.05.

y = .05x + 320

Now we can see that the slope is .05 and the y-intercept is 320