Jenny works at Sammy's Restaurant and is paid according to the rates in the following table.

Jenny's weekly wage agreement

Basic wage $600.00

PLUS

$0.90 for each customer served

In a week when Jenny serves \(n\) customers, her weekly wage, \(W_j\), in dollars, is given by the formula

\[W_j=600+0.90n\]

Determine Jenny's weekly wage if she served 230 customers.

[1]
In a good week, Jenny's wage is $1000.00 or more. What is the LEAST number of customers that Jenny must serve in order to have a good week?

[2]
At the same restaurant, Shawna is paid a weekly wage of $270.00 plus $1.50 for each customer she serves.

If \(W_s\) is Shawna's weekly wage, in dollars, write a formula for calculating Shawna's weekly wage when she serves \(m\) customers.

[1]
In a certain week, Jenny and Shawna received the same wage for serving the same number of customers.

How many customers did they EACH serve?

[3]

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