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Graphing proportional relationships

Roberto is having his house painted. The job takes three days, and he pays the painter the same hourly rate every day. The cost of the job is in the chart below.
Day 11Day 22Day 33
Hours worked554466
Amount paid$300\$300$240\$240$360\$360
What is the painter's unit rate of change of dollars with respect to time; that is, how much is the painter paid for one hour worked?
The unit rate of change is
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 66
  • an exact decimal, like 0.750.75
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/53/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/47/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/41\ 3/4
dollars per hour.
Graph the proportional relationship described above, with the xx-coordinate representing hours worked, and the yy-coordinate representing amount paid in dollars.
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Graph the relationship.