Question

corinne earns an hourly wage on top of her weekly gas allowance for her delivery job. her weekly earnings can be shown using the following expression: 40+7.50h what does the constant term of the expression represent?

Answer 1

Corrine earns an hourly wage on top of her weekly gas allowance for her delivery job.

Her weekly earnings can be expressed as:

Earnings = 40 + 7.50h

When h=0, her earnings will be 40

This constant represents, the fixed gas allowance she is receiving for her delivery job. 7.50h represents that she get paid $7.50 for an hour of work. 

So, the constant term in the expression represent her weekly gas allowance.