Floyd is an inspiring music artist he has a record contract that pays him a base rate of $200 a month. An additional $12 for each album he sells, last month he earned a total of $644.

The equation to determine the number of album sold last month is .

Floyd sold 37 albums last month.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Base rate = $200

Additional on each album sold = $12

Amount earned last month = $644

We need to write and solve an equation to find the number of album sold last month.

Solution:

Let the number of album sold last month be 'x'.

So we can say that;

Amount earned last month is equal Base rate plus Additional on each album sold  multiplied by number of album sold.

framing in equation form we get;

Hence The equation to determine the number of album sold last month is .

On Solving the above equation we get;

Subtracting both side by 200 we get;

Dividing both side by 12 we get;

Hence Floyd sold 37 albums last month.

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