Afastpitch softball player signs a six-
vear contract. her agent expects that she will
earn $1,000,000 over the next six years. if the
agent is right, how many bonus payments, on
average, should the pitcher expect each year?
explain how you got the answer.

Explanation:

The information provided about the contract can be translated into an algebraic expression that will yield to an equation that you can solve:

Yearly salary: $ 20,000

Bonus for each game that attracts 100 plus fans:

Equation:

Solve the equation:

To obtain the number of bonus payments expected each year, divide the total number of bonus payments (110) by the number of years (6):

Althoug it is not wrong giving the answer as a decimal, because it is an average, you can also round to the closest whole number which is 18.

Hence, the answer is that the pitcher should expect 18 bonus payments, on average, each year.

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in mathematics, a constraint is a condition of an optimization problem that the solution must satisfy. there are several types of constraints—primarily equality constraints, inequality constraints, and integer constraints. the set of candidate solutions that satisfy all constraints is called the feasible set.

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