A student gets paid to sell food and drinks at the school play during intermission. he earns an hourly rate of $12, plus an extra $0.50 for each bakery item he sells and $0.25 for each drink he sells. if h = hours, b = bakery items, and d = drinks, what function can he use to calculate his earnings?

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Nikhil Obrien

Mathematics

5 November, 08:43

A student gets paid to sell food and drinks at the school play during intermission. he earns an hourly rate of $12, plus an extra $0.50 for each bakery item he sells and $0.25 for each drink he sells. if h = hours, b = bakery items, and d = drinks, what function can he use to calculate his earnings?

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Ireland Grimes · Answer 1

So basically its asking you to create an equation so he can take

the amount of bakery goods sold (b)

the amount of drinks sold (d)

and the hours he worked (h)

and put them into an equation and get the answer.

the equation is this

Y = (12H) + (0.5B) + (0.25D)