SOLUTION: Your roommate graduates in December and decides to take a job as an insurance salesperson. The salary provides a base salary of 2000 dollars per month plus a 15% commission on the

Question 193441: Your roommate graduates in December and decides to take a job as an insurance salesperson. The salary provides a base salary of 2000 dollars per month plus a 15% commission on the monthly sales over 10,000 dollars.

What i think the answer is, is: y=2000+.15x
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
yes if y is equal to income per month and x represents commission sales per sales exceeding 10000 per month
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then you are correct.
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if x just represented monthly sales then you would write it like this
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y=2000+.15(x-10000) for x>10000
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