Question

Floyd is an aspiring music artist. He has a record contract that pays him a base rate of $200 a month and an additional $12 for each album that he sells. Last month he earned a total of $644. Write an equation to determine the number of albums (a) Floyd sold last month.

Answer 1

formula:
$644 = 12x + 200$


Number of albums sold:
$644 = 12x + 200$
subtract the 200 over
$444 = 12x$
divide by 12
$37 = x$
Floyd sold 37 albums last month.