a college student yakes a summer job selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door. She is paid $36 for a four-hour shift. She also earns $7 for each subscription sold.

a) create a function f (x) for the amount she earns on a shift during which she sells x subscriptions.

b) use the function f(x) to determine how much she earns on a shift during which she sells 12 subscriptions
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If she sells no subscriptions she just gets paid $36 for her shift. For each subs she gets $7 so for x subs she gets $7x. 

(a) The total she earns is f(x)=7x+36 dollars.

(b) f(12)=84+36=$120.

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