A new employee at a sales company is offered one of three different possible salary packages, A, B and C. The new employee will work 15 hours per week.

Question

Package A: $105 for the 15 hours of work each week.
Package B: $60 plus a commission of 8% of all sales during the week.
Package C: 12% commission of all sales during the week.

Let X represent the dollar amount of sale s during the week and S represent the weekly salary, write linear equations for each salary package. These equations should express the salary as a function of the number of sales.

Answer 1

A: s = 105
B: s = 60 + .08x
C: s = .12x