Question

5) Cameron earns $7 per hour at her after school job. The total amount of her paychecks varies directly with the amount of time she works. Write a direct variation equation for the amount of money that she earns for working x hours. Then graph.

Answer 1

Let x represent the number of working hours. Given taht she earns $7 per hour, then the amount taht she earns in x hours is $7x. If y represents the amount that she earns, then the direct variation equation would be

y = 7x

Where 7 represents the constant of proportionality. The graph is shown below