Question

1. 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?

a) 8; it represents the hourly wage for the worker

b) 8; it represents the cost for insurance

c) 25; it represents the cost for insurance***

d) 25; it represents the hourly wage for the worker

2.A company is paying a local radio station to run its commercials. The cost for running commercials is a one-time campaign fee and also a per-second fee for the air time of each commercial. The cost can be modeled by the equation y = 250 + 100x, where x is seconds.

What is the slope, and what does it represent?

a) 250; it represents the per-second fee of air time

b) 250; it represents the one-time campaign fee

c) 100; it represents the one-time campaign fee

d) 100; it represents the per-second fee of air time