Question

For each hour he babysit,Anderson earns 1$ more than half of carey's hourly rate.Anderson earns 6$ per hour. wich equation can be used to solve for carey's hourly rate,c?

Answer 1

Answer:

The expression to find Carey's hourly rate is: $c = 2*a - 2$. Carey's hourly rate is $10.

Step-by-step explanation:

Anderson receives 1 more than half of carey's hourly rate. If we call Anderson's rate by "a" and Carey's by "c", we can express this phrase in the following equation:

$a = \frac{c}{2} + 1$

We want to find the Carey's rate, therefore we need to isolate the "c" variable.

$\frac{c}{2} + 1 = a\\\frac{c}{2} = a - 1\\c = 2*a - 2$

Since Anderson earns $6, then we can find Carey's rate:

$c = 2*6 - 2 = 12 - 2 = 10$