Question

Your first job is to babysit a couple of times a week. You charge a flatfee of $10 for transportation back and forth to the house plus $5.50per hour. Let t be the time in hours that you babysit. Write analgebraic expression to define the amount of money you will makefor t hours of work.

Answer 1

5.50t + 10

Explanation:

Total amount of money made will sum of

transportation fees and money charged for t hours of baby siting

Given

transportation fees of back and forth to the house = $10

also given that

fees of 1 hour babysitting = $5.50

we have to find fee for t hours baby sitting ,

fees of t hours babysitting = fees of 1 hour babysitting*t

fees of t hours babysitting = 5.50t

Total amount of money made = fees of t hours babysitting + transportation fees of back and forth to the house

Total amount of money made = 5.50t + 10

Thus,

algebraic expression to define the amount of money you will make for t hours of work is 5.50t + 10