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Steven earns extra money babysitting. He charges $25.00 for 4 hours and $37.50 for 6 hours. Write an equation to represent the relationship. Let x represent the number of hours Steven babysits and y represents the amount he charges. The equation is y=

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An easy way to solve this problem is divide $23.25 by 3 or $54.25 by 7. Either way, you get $7.75. This number represents the amount of money he makes for 1 hour. So with that in mind, the correct equation is:

$7.75x = y

I hope this helped! :)))

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