Peyton is a salesperson who sells computers at an electronics store. She makes a base pay amount of $60 per day regardless of sales and she earns a commission of 2.5% of the dollar amount of all sales that she makes. Write an equation for P, P, in terms of x, x, representing Peyton's total pay on a day on which she sells xx dollars worth of computers.

step-by-step explanation:

this can be solved first with pythagorean theorem, which tells us to square both legs of the triangle and sum it. this will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

the hypotenuse is the side "opposite" the 90 degree angle, which is x.

so we can write using pythagorean theorem,

simplifying:

to further simplify this radical, we need to use the property  

thus