Terri is starting a babysitting service to make some extra money. She plans to charge a base fee of $10 plus $7 per hour. Write a function that could be used to represent her total charge for the babysitting service, y, as a function of the number of hours she babysits, x.

Given:

Terri plans to charge a base fee of $10 plus $7 per hour for babysitting.

To find:

The function that could be used to represent her total charge for the babysitting service, y, as a function of the number of hours she babysits, x.

Solution:

Let y be the total charge for the babysitting service for x hours.

Base fee = $10

Additional fee for one hour = $7

Additional fee for x hour = $7x

Total fee = Base fee + Additional fee for x hours

Therefore, the equation of required function is .