SOLUTION: Colin has a part-time job at a cellular phone store to cover his expenses while at college. He makes a monthly salary of $600 plus 15% Commission on all phones that he sells. Colin

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Question 1076475: Colin has a part-time job at a cellular phone store to cover his expenses while at college. He makes a monthly salary of $600 plus 15% Commission on all phones that he sells. Colin needs to have at least $900 from this job to meet his expenses.
a) Write an inequality to show the dollar amount of phone sales Colin needs to make each month.
b) Solve the inequality.

Answer by addingup(3677)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
600+0.15x > 900
0.15x > 300
x > 2,000

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