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Terri is starting a babysitting service to make some extra money. She plans to charge a base fee of $10 plus $7 per hour. Write a function that could be used to represent her total charge for the babysitting service, y, as a function of the number of hours she babysits, x. *

y = 10x – 7
y = 7x – 10
y = 10x + 7
y = 7x + 10

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Answer:

I thought it would be y=10x+7 because the base fee which is the starting fee is 10 and your adding 7 every hour so that would be +7.

Explanation:

User Christian Huber
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Answer: y = 7x+10 (choice D)

Work Shown:

x = number of hours she babysits

1 hour = 7 dollars

x hours = 7x dollars (multiply both sides by x)

She earns 7x dollars after babysitting x hours if we ignore the $10 base fee. Add on the $10 base fee to get 7x+10 dollars total.

Therefore y = 7x+10 is the equation we want.

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