You will use the word absolute value. The absolute value describes a distance from zero. Here is how you would write this in math terms and symbols:
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On Call's unit rate is about $2.86 per hour, since $10/3.5 hours= $2.86/1 hour
Talk Time's unit rate is about $2.50 per hour, since $1.25/0.5 hours= $2.50/1 hour
Answer: A, or 0.2x
Step-by-step explanation:
To figure how expressions and percent's match up, replace the x with an easy number. For example, I use 4.
20% of 4 is 0.8, and 4 x 0.2 is also 0.8
Therefore, the expression to represent that percentage is A.
Also, the other answers were WAYYY off.
B, or x - 20 is flawed since x could be anything.
C, is also flawed in the same way.
And D makes -76.
A is the only sensible one and is proven to work.
Hope this helped!
-Nick
