The owner of a restaurant franchise pays the parent company a monthly fee of

Question

$5163
plus
12
%
of sales.
(a) Write a linear model to compute the monthly payment,
y
, that the restaurant owner must pay the parent company for
x
dollars in sales.
(b) Use the equation from part(a) to compute the amount that the owner has to pay if monthly sales are
$10,700
.
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(a) Write a linear model to compute the monthly payment,
y
, that the restaurant owner must pay the parent company for
x
dollars in sales.
=y

Answer 1

The linear model to compute the monthly payment, y, that the restaurant owner must pay the parent company for x dollars in sales is:

y = 5163 + 0.12x