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Lacie pays a babysitter an initial fee of $30 in addition to $7 per hour. When trying to solve this problem,Juan created the function y = 30x + 7. Explain his error.Juan assigned the wrong coefficient to x. He should have written the equation

Lacie pays a babysitter an initial fee of $30 in addition to $7 per hour. When trying-example-1
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he should have written the equation y=7x+30 because 30 is the fixed initial value and 7 is the value that increase with the number of hours

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