Each month Ms. Tanaka is paid a base salary of $2,500 in addition to $100 for each television that she sells. This is modeled by 2,500 + 100t , where t represents the number of televisions. Evaluate for t = 12 to find how much Ms. Tanaka will earn for selling 12 televisions this month.

Question

Each month Ms. Tanaka is paid a base salary of $2,500 in addition to $100 for each television that she sells. This is modeled by  2,500 + 100t , where  t  represents the number of televisions. Evaluate for  t = 12  to find how much Ms. Tanaka will earn for selling 12 televisions this month.

GPT 3.5 · Answer

To find out how much Ms. Tanaka will earn for selling 12 televisions this month, we substitute t = 12 into the equation 2,500 + 100t.

Earnings = 2,500 + 100(12)
= 2,500 + 1,200
= 3,700

Therefore, Ms. Tanaka will earn $3,700 for selling 12 televisions this month.