Maya earns 52 dollars each week working part-time at a bookstore. She earns one additional dollar for each book that she sells.
Let A be the amount (in dollars) that Maya earns in a week if she sells B books.
Write an equation relating A to B. Then use this equation to find the amount of money Maya earns if she sells 14 books.
earnings = base pay + $1 per book sold
A = 52 + B
44(13)=44+13
572=57
To write an equation relating A to B, we know that Maya earns 52 dollars each week regardless of book sales. Additionally, she earns one additional dollar for each book that she sells. Thus, we can say that the amount Maya earns in a week (A) is equal to her base earnings (52 dollars) plus the additional earnings she receives for selling books (1 dollar per book sold) multiplied by the number of books sold (B).
Therefore, the equation relating A to B is:
A = 52 + B
To find the amount of money Maya earns if she sells 14 books, we can substitute B = 14 into the equation:
A = 52 + 14
A = 66
Therefore, Maya will earn 66 dollars if she sells 14 books.