Question

As a lifeguard, sara earns a base pay of $80 per day. if her day involves swim instruction, sara earns an additional 9t dollars, where t represents the number of hours she gives instruction and $9 is her hourly rate. The total amount Sara earns in a day can be expressed as 80 + 9t.

(a) What does 9t represent in this context?

(b) What are the terms and the coefficients in the expression 80 + 9t

(c) Rewrite the expression for 7 hours of swim instruction.

(d) how much will sara earn in all?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Sara's base pay is $80

(a) The 9t represents the additional amount of money that she earns if she gives instruction for t hours. 9 stands for $9 per hour

b)The term in the expression is t which stands for the number of hours that she instructs. The coefficient is 9 which stands for the hourly rate

c) The expression for 7 hours would be

We will substitute t into 80 + 9t. It becomes

80 + 9×7

d) in all, she will earn

80 + 9×7 = $143