SOLUTION: A company is deciding whether or not to hire a new worker. The company must pay the worker hourly and cover a daily cost for insurance. The cost to pay an hourly worker for one day
Question 1151542: A company is deciding whether or not to hire a new worker. The company must pay the worker hourly and cover a daily cost for insurance. The cost to pay an hourly worker for one day is represented by the function y = 8x + 25, where x is hours.
What is the y-intercept, and what does it represent?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! th function is y = 8x + 25
x is the number of hours worked during the day.
8 is the cost per hour.
25 is the cost of the insurance per day.
the y intercept is the value of y when the value of x is equal to 0.
that represents the daily cost of the insurance which is 25 dollars a day.
y represents the total cost for the day which is the number of hours he person works per day times 8 dollars plus 25 dollars for insurance.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If x is for hours the worker works in one day, then y intercept of 25 may be the insurance cost for the worker for one day.
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