Problema Solution
as a deliverer you will be paid .1 cent for every paper that you deliver and .3 cent for every weekend paper you deliver write an algebraic expression for this payment plan.
Answer provided by our tutors
the question is worded a bit ambiguously, but we assume it means .1 for every daily paper delivered, as in Monday through Friday, and then .3 cents for every weekend paper, as in Saturday and Sunday... there are other ways to interpret this, however
let 'd' represent the number of daily papers delivered each day, then '5d' represents to total number of daily papers delivered during one week
let 'w' represent the number of weekend papers delivered on each weekend day, then '2w' represents the total number of weekend papers delivered during one week
one can calculate, then, the total earnings for one week using this expression:
5d(0.1) + 2w(0.3)