SOLUTION: A company pays workers with eight years experience $40,000 per year, and workers with twenty years experience $57,000 per year. Assume that the company increases salaries linearly.

Question 419331: A company pays workers with eight years experience $40,000 per year, and workers with twenty years experience $57,000 per year. Assume that the company increases salaries linearly. Write a linear equation that gives salary S of a worker with t years of experience.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = salary/year
Let = experience in years
You are given 2 points:
(t,s) = (8,40000)
(t,s) = (20,57000)
Given 2 points, the formula is:

Multiply both sides by

answer
check:
(t,s) = (20,57000)

OK
You can check the other point
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