Question

Oscar charges $25 for the first hour of tutoring and $15 for each additional hour of fraction of an hour counting as a whole hour. the rates that Latoya charges for x hours of tutoring are modeled with with the function shown.

Choose.. will charge (5,10,15,20) more to tutor for 5.5 hours

Answer 1

Latoya will charge $10 more to tutor for 5.5 hours

Explanation:

We shall look at the total charges of both tutors individually.

Oscar charges $25 for the first hour of tutoring and $15 for each additional hour of fraction of an hour counting as a whole hour.

This means that for the first hour, Oscar charges $25.

For every subsequent hour, regardless of whether the student was tutored for the full hour or only partial, Oscar still charges $15 for the particular hour. To clarify, here is an example.

If a student is tutored for 2 hours, the cost for Oscar's tutoring is $25 (first hour) + $15 (second hour) = $40. However, if the student is still tutored for 1.5 hours, the cost for Oscar's tutoring is still $25 (first hour) + $15 (second hour) = $40. This is because Oscar counts the partial minutes as a full hour in tutoring costs.

For 5.5 hours, the cost of Oscar's tutoring is

$25 (first hour) + $15*4 (2nd to 5th hours) + $15 (the last half an hour) = $100.

Now, we shall look at Latoya's tutoring cost.

f(x) =

30x,

`0 \leqslant x \leqslant 3`

20x,

`3 < x \leqslant 6`

10x,

`x > 6`

The tutoring cost depends on x, the number of tutoring hours. In this case, x is 5.5. The cost for 5.5 hour depends on the formula 20x since 5.5 is more than 3 but less than 6.

Hence, the tutoring cost for Latoya is $20*5.5 = $110.

In this case, Latoya charges $110-$100=$10 more to tutor for 5.5 hours.