Jason is a writer who gets paid a certain number of dollars per page, but 25 percent of the money he makes goes to taxes. suppose d (p) represents the number of dollars jason gets paid as a function of the number of pages he writes, and suppose t (p) represents the number of Jason's dollars that go to taxes. If t (p) = 500, what is the value of (d-t) (p) ?

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Rayan Heath

28 June, 07:01

Jason is a writer who gets paid a certain number of dollars per page, but 25 percent of the money he makes goes to taxes. suppose d (p) represents the number of dollars jason gets paid as a function of the number of pages he writes, and suppose t (p) represents the number of Jason's dollars that go to taxes. If t (p) = 500, what is the value of (d-t) (p) ?

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We are given that

d (p) represents the number of dollars jason gets paid

t (p) represents the number of Jason's dollars that go to taxes

t (p) = 500

Then

d (p) = 500 / 0.25

d (p) = 2000

The value of

(d-t) (p) = 2000 - 500 = 1500