SOLUTION: Your parents go out to eat and see a movie and end up spending $78 for the meal and movie, while also paying $8.50 per hour for a babysitter. Write a verbal model of the equation t

Question 936701: Your parents go out to eat and see a movie and end up spending $78 for the meal and movie, while also paying $8.50 per hour for a babysitter. Write a verbal model of the equation that gives the total cost of your parents night out as a function of the number of hours they were gone.
Found 2 solutions by TimothyLamb, stanbon:
Answer by TimothyLamb(4379) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x = hours out
y = cost of going out
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y = 8.50x + 78
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slope is the babysitter cost per hour
y-intercept is the cost of meal and movie
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your parents go out to eat and see a movie and end up spending $78 for the meal and movie, while also paying $8.50 per hour for a babysitter. Write a verbal model of the equation that gives the total cost of your parents night out as a function of the number of hours they were gone.
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total cost for the evening equals the sum of the cost of the meal and the product of cost per hour and unknown number of hours of babysitting
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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