Question

A company pays its employees a base salary of $1000 every other week, plus $30 for each sale. How many sales did the employee have if the paycheck is $1720

Answer 1

Looks as tho' we'll need to make some assumptions here. Does that $1,720 paycheck apply to 2 weeks' salary? a month's salary?

You could best represent this situation by writing a linear function:

Pay = p(x) = (base salary) + (pay dependent upon # of sales).

Can you take the numbers given in the problem statement to write the actual formula for this person's pay?