Jared earns 0.25 vacation day for each week that he works in a calendar year. He also gets 10 paid holidays per year.

Question

-Use unit analysis to represent the amount of paid time off Jared gets in a year after working for w weeks, and identify the units for the expression. 

 

-Write an algebraic expression to represent the amount of paid time off Jared gets in a year after working for w weeks, and identify the units for the eexpression.

 

-Identify the units of each term, variable, and coefficient in the expression.

Answer 1

Paid time will equal accrued vacation time plus holiday pay.

Based on the provided information, holiday pay is an independent variable, whereas vacation pay is dependent on the number of weeks worked.

 

The equation is Paid time = (0.25 day x Weeks worked) + Holiday pay

The number 0.25 is a coefficient, Weeks is a variable, and Holiday pay is an independent factor.