SOLUTION: Two friends work at the same company. Friend A gets paid $50,000 for the year no matter hours she works. Friend B gets paid $20 an hour. Write an equation for each person that sho

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Question 1130217: Two friends work at the same company. Friend A gets paid $50,000 for the year no matter hours she works. Friend B gets paid $20 an hour. Write an equation for each person that shows the relationship between the annual salary y and the number of hours x that friend works. Fill in each table of values and graph each function
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Friend A:
+y+=+50000+
Friend B:
+y+=+20x+
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+50000+=+20x+
+x+=+2500+
Here are the plots with +y+
in thousands of dollars
and +x+ in hundreds of hrs
+graph%28+800%2C+300%2C+-3%2C+30%2C+-5%2C+60%2C+50%2C+2x+%29+