Bill was just offered a sales position for a computer company. His salary would be $15,000 per year plus 1% of his total annual sales. (a) Find a linear function that relates Bills annual salary, S, to his total annual sales, x. (b) In 2010, Bill had total annual sales of $1,000,000. What was Bills salary? (c) What would Bill have to sell to earn $100,000? (d) Determine the sales required of Bill for his salary to exceed $150,000.
POLS 310 Chapter 1 Part 16 o The contemporary globalized culture is highly secular, and that itself is a source of tension. Critics of the culture contend it is based on the constant pressure to purchase more and more material products, with marketing specialists who create artificial demands for the latest, newest, most improved telephone, television, automobile, clothing, etc. This global consumer culture is the target of many critics including “deep green” ecotopians and some fundamentalist religious communities These groups object to the emphasis on materialism and the undermining of traditional norms and values that goes with Wes