An advertising agency provides services to a pizza shop for a fixed rate of $2,500 per month plus a commission of 42% of the pizza's take-out sales. For this account to be profitable, the agency needs to bring in at least $8,800 a month from the pizza shop.

A. Write an inequality to represent what the pizza shop take-out sales must be for the advertising agency to be profitable.

B. Solve the inequality from Part A.

Question

An advertising agency provides services to a pizza shop for a fixed rate of $2,500 per month plus a commission of 42% of the pizza's take-out sales.  For this account to be profitable, the agency needs to bring in at least $8,800 a month from the pizza shop.  

A.  Write an inequality to represent what the pizza shop take-out sales must be for the advertising agency to be profitable.  

B.  Solve the inequality from Part A.

anonymous · Answer

$$2,500 + .42x \ge 8,800$$