Question

Each day, Deshaun earns a fixed wage plus extra money for every hour of overtime he works. The graph shows his total pay (in dollars) versus the amount of overtime ( in hours) that he works.

Answer 1

Hello!

So, for question (a)

The point that represents Deshaun's salary without working overtime is that in which x=0, being x the overtime hours

In this case, when x=0, y=60, being y his total pay

Regarding question (b)

Notice that as the overtime hours increased so the total day does. Then, the function is increasing!

Moreover, this is a line, so we can look for its equation:

Notice that when he works 1 extra hour he receives 90 dollars as total pay, i.e., x=1 y=90

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