Question

Jared earns 0.25 vacation days for every week that he works in a calendar year. He also gets 10 paid company holidays per year. Write a verbal model and an algebraic expression to represent the amount of time he gets off from work in a year after working for w weeks and identify the units for the expression

Answer 1

1.       Jared earns 0.25 vacation days for every week
=> He also gets 10 paids company holidays
Now, write a verbal model and algebraic expression that will represents to get the total amount of holidays will Jared gets.
=>0.25 holidays for every week
=> 0.25 (w) , where w represents the number of weeks I a years
=> 10 paid company holidays
so the expression would be:
=> 0.25w + 10
0.25 will be multiplied by the number of weeks in a year, then added with 10