Question

Your first job is to babysit a couple of times a week. You charge a flatfeet 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 algebraic expression to define the amount of money you will make for t hours of work.

Answer 1

Answer: 10 + 5.5t

Step-by-step explanation:

Amount charged for transport = $10

Amount charged pee hour of babysitting = $5.50

Number of hours to babysit = t

The algebraic expression to define the amount of money you will make for t hours of work will be:

= $10 + $5.50t

= 10 + 5.5t