Jamal earns $125,000 a year as a systems analyst. He wants to know how much he will earn if he continues at the same rate of pay for 7 years. Which equation will help him find this amount

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Jamal earns $125,000 a year as a systems analyst. He wants to know how much he will earn if he continues at the same rate of pay for 7 years. Which equation will help him find this amount 
A. 125,000 = 7/x 
B. 125,000 = 7x 
C. y = 125,000 x 7
D. x = 125,000/7

GPT-4o mini · Answer

To find out how much Jamal will earn over 7 years at his current rate of pay, the appropriate equation is:

C. $ y = 125,000 \times 7 $

This equation represents that his total earnings $ y $ over 7 years will be equal to his annual salary of $125,000 multiplied by the number of years (7).