Question

An electrician charges an hourly rate of $50, but also charges a fixed fee for making house calls regardless of time spend on the job. One day, the electrician earned a total of $250 for a 2 hour job. Write an equation for C,C, in terms of t,t, representing the total cost of the electrician's services if the electrician spends tt hours at the house working.

Answer 1

C=50t+150

Explanation:

From the information given, the equation will need to show that the total cost of the electrician services would be equal to 50 that is the hourly rate for the number of hours spent working plus the fixed fee:

Fixed fee=250-(50*2)=250-100=150

According to this, the equation would be:

C=50t+150, where C is the total cost of the electrician's services and t is the number of hours spent working.