SOLUTION: A waiter makes $40.00 a day, plus 70% of the tip money he receives. The rest of the tip money must be shared with the cook and the busboy. A. Find the linear function that repres

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Question 172101: A waiter makes $40.00 a day, plus 70% of the tip money he receives. The rest of the tip money must be shared with the cook and the busboy.
A. Find the linear function that represents the waiters total daily pay as a function of tip money received.
B.How much tip money would the waiter need to receive in order to make $100.00 a day?
C. How much money would the waiter make in a day if he received $57 in tip money?
D.Sketch a graph of this function and showing appropriate domain and range
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let p(t) = waiter's total daily pay as a function of tip money
(A)
(B)



The waiter would need $85.71 in tip money
(C)


The waiter would receive $79.90 in pay
(D)
The waiter makes at least $40 when tips = zero
Pay on the y-axis can't be less than 40
tips on the x-axis can never be negative
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