To calculate how much money the record label would make from selling 15,000 copies of an album at a wholesale price of $8.50 per copy, you can use the following formula:
\[ \text{Total Revenue} = \text{Number of Copies Sold} \times \text{Wholesale Price per Copy} \]
Plugging in the numbers:
\[ \text{Total Revenue} = 15,000 , \text{copies} \times 8.50 , \text{USD/copy} \]
\[ \text{Total Revenue} = 127,500 , \text{USD} \]
So, the record label would make $127,500 if they sold 15,000 copies of the album at the wholesale price of $8.50.