SOLUTION: You hire an electrician to repair some fixtures for you. The cost (c) in dollars to have an electrician come to your house for (h) hours is described by the function: c=50h+100.

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Question 1183799: You hire an electrician to repair some fixtures for you. The cost (c) in dollars to have an electrician come to your house for (h) hours is described by the function: c=50h+100.
a) What does the 100 represent in terms of the problem?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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The 100 is a cost regardless of how long the electrician works. That is the base cost just to have the electrician come out there, regardless of what the person will do.
The 50h means $50 per hour worked. It is the variable cost, the part that varies with the amount of work. It is the slope of the line. The intercept is the base cost of $100 regardless of what happens.