The partners at starbucks receive tips once a week. the total of tips were $2.03 per hour. create a function to find the amount of tips that a partner who worked 25, 30, and 37 hours would receive. (what confused me is when it asked for the amount of tips one employee received.) offering 30 !

Nothing to confuse. The number of partners are 3. $2.03 is the amount of tips they receive per hour. So devide $2.03 to get the amount of tip that one partner receives hourly, which is $0.68.

Now to create a function, it's clearly that the number of hours is the variable x so it would change depending on how many hours each employee has worked. So the equation will be :

y = 0.68x

Apply the number of hours of each employee and get the total of tip they receive per hour.

Edit : if the partners who are working is unknown you can write the equation based on this :

y = ((2.03)x)/n

n is the number of partners who are working so the amount of tip they will receive will depend on how many employees are working in the cafe.

Hope this helps !