A math tutor earns $40 an hour tutoring teenagers. Sometimes he will meet with two students at once and get paid $80 per hour total. Is this a linear model or an exponential model?

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Mathematics

Eva Glenn

3 February, 14:36

A math tutor earns $40 an hour tutoring teenagers. Sometimes he will meet with two students at once and get paid $80 per hour total. Is this a linear model or an exponential model?

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Isabela Cummings · Answer 1

It should be linear if you let the variable t represent the time tutoring for ONE student, so y = 40*t where t = number of hours for ONE student

so if the tutor taught 2 students for 2 hours together, then t = 2*2 = 4 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

y = 40t

t = tutoring hours for ONE unique student ...