Carson is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. He makes a base
pay amount each day and then is paid a commission as a percentage of the total
dollar amount the company makes from his sales that day. Let P represent Carson's
total pay on a day on which he sells a dollars worth of computers. The table below
has select values showing the linear relationship between x and P. Determine how
many dollars worth of computers Carson would have to sell in order to get paid $140
on a given day.
P
2500 127.5
4000 165
5500 202.5
x
