SOLUTION: The amount of money that a magazine pays for an article varies directly as the number of words in the article. If the magazine pays $720 for a 1200-word article, how much will be p

Question 1202464: The amount of money that a magazine pays for an article varies directly as the number of words in the article. If the magazine pays $720 for a 1200-word article, how much will be paid for an article of 1500 words?

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52803)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The amount of money that a magazine pays for an article varies directly
as the number of words in the article. If the magazine pays $720 for a 1200-word article,
how much will be paid for an article of 1500 words?
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Write a proportion = = . From this proportion, find x = = = 180*5 = 900 dollars. ANSWER

Solved.

Notice that the proportion says that the ratio
remains the same (remains constant), exactly as the problem states.

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Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
m, amount of money
w, number of words
k, variation constant

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amount of money that a magazine pays for an article varies directly as the number of words in the article.
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If the magazine pays $720 for a 1200-word article, how much will be paid for an article of 1500 words?
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Enough information to answer the question.
Also you can start with the article's word count and use the pay rate to solve for the amount of pay. Unit Conversion!

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