Anthony got a job babysitting each hour he works he will be paid eight dollars as a bonus. He will earn an additional $1.50 per hour for each child. He watches if his total hourly rate is $12.50. How many children does he watch?

Question

Anthony got a job babysitting each hour he works he will be paid eight dollars as a bonus. He will earn an additional $1.50 per hour for each child. He watches if his total hourly rate is $12.50. How many children does he watch?
Write an equation in the form px+q=r

GPT 3.5 · Answer

Let x be the number of children Anthony watches.

He earns $1.50 per child per hour, so the total amount he earns for watching x children per hour is 1.5x.

He earns an additional $8 as a bonus per hour, so the total amount he earns for each hour is 8 + 1.5x.

We can write this as the equation 8 + 1.5x = 12.50.

Therefore, the equation in the form px + q = r is 1.5x + 8 = 12.50.