Colin charges a flat fee for babysitting plus an hourly fee. His total cost is represented on the graph. How can you represent this situation algebraically? Y=
Let's say the flat fee for Colin's babysitting service is represented by "a" and the hourly fee is represented by "b".
The total cost, Y, can be represented as:
Y = a + bx
In this equation, "a" represents the flat fee and "bx" represents the hourly fee based on the number of hours spent babysitting.