Question

Robin works as a customer service representative. She knows that the

amount in dollars of her yearly bonus is represented by the expression - 1.25x + 651, where x is the
number of complaints customers had about her during the year. To find her bonus if she gets 12
complaints, she substitutes 12 for x. What should be her next step? What would her bonus be?

Answer 1

multiply -1.25 x 12

Sense a negative and a positive will always be negative when dealing with multiplication you'll get -15

now -15 +651= 636

always take the sign of the biggest number.