Wendy earns $2 for every table she serves plus 20% of the total customer order. Define a variable and write an expression to represent the amount of money she earns for one table.
The total customer order is the unknown or variable here. You can use x to represent the total customer order.
For one table, Wendy earns $2 plus 20% of x which looks like this as an expression:
2 + 0.2x
0.2 is the decimal equivalent to 20%
Let's define the variable "x" to represent the amount of money Wendy earns for one table. To calculate this amount, we need to consider two parts: the base amount and the percentage of the total customer order.
The base amount of money Wendy earns for one table is $2. Therefore, we can represent this part as 2.
The additional amount Wendy earns for one table is 20% of the total customer order. To calculate this, we need to know the total customer order, and then find 20% of that value.
Let's call the total customer order "T". To find 20% of T, you can multiply T by 0.20 (or divide T by 5). The expression for the additional amount of money Wendy earns for one table is 0.20 * T.
Now, to get the total amount of money Wendy earns for one table, we add the base amount and the additional amount:
x = 2 + 0.20 * T
Therefore, the expression to represent the amount of money Wendy earns for one table is 2 + 0.20 * T.