document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=912189>Question 912189</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> For each day on the newpaper route you recieve $10.00 plus a fixed amount for each newspaper you deliver. Currently yo are earning $18.00 per day for delivering 80 newspapers. Today you are assigned to deliver 20 additional newspapers per day. What will be your new daily earnings?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "A.) 10.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B.)18.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C.) 19.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "D.)20.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "E.) 22.50 </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "So you earn 10 + k*x dollars where k is the fixed number you earn per paper and x is the number of papers.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"Currently you are earning $18.00 per day for delivering 80 newspapers. \"\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "which means 10+k*x = 10+k*80 = 10+80k is the amount of money made. That amount of money made is $18, so \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "10+80k = 18\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "80k = 18-10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "80k = 8\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "k = 8/80\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "k = 1/10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "k = 0.10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So you earn $0.10 or 10 cents per paper.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now you are delivering 20 additional papers. So the total delivered is 80+20 = 100 papers\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "10+k*x = 10+0.10*100 = 10+10 = 20\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The final answer is <font color=\"red\">$20.00</font> </SPAN>\n" );
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