Question

an employee is charged $8.00 each day for health care and is paid $16.00 per hour of work. which equation and graph best represents this situation?

Answer 1

The equation that best represents the employee's situation is Total Pay = ($16.00 × hours worked) - $8.00. This would be graphed with the y-axis representing total pay and the x-axis representing hours worked, starting at negative $8.00 on the y-axis.

Step-by-step explanation:

The situation described involves an employee who earns a certain hourly wage and has a fixed daily cost for health care. The hourly wage is $16.00 per hour and the daily health care cost is $8.00. To represent this situation with an equation, we need to account for the employee's earnings and the fixed cost.

The equation will have two parts: the hourly wage multiplied by the number of hours worked (let's call this 'h'), and the fixed daily health care cost. The total daily pay will then be the hourly wage times the number of hours worked, minus the health care cost.

The equation that represents this situation is: Total Pay = ($16.00 × h) - $8.

If we were to graph this situation, the y-axis would represent the total pay and the x-axis would represent the number of hours worked. Since there is a fixed cost of $8.00, the line would start at negative $8.00 (representing the cost incurred regardless of hours worked) and increase by $16.00 for each additional hour worked.

Answer 2

An employee is charged $8.00 each day for health care and is paid $16.00 per hour of work.
For this situation the following equation can be written:
Let X denotes the number of hours the employee works in one week.
And Y denotes the total amount of money the employee gets every week for his work. Then we can write:
Y=16*X-5*8 (5 stands for 5 working days per week).
Y=16*X-40