HELP! You are working this summer babysitting your neighbor’s kids. You have to work 5 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Your neighbor says that she will give you two choices with how she will pay you.

Choice #1: Your neighbor will give you $15 a day for the summer.

Choice #2 – Your neighbor will give you $0.01 for the first day that you babysit. Then, every day after, she will double your pay. So each day you will make double what you did the day before.

Which option would you choose? Why would you choose this?

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HELP! You are working this summer babysitting your neighbor’s kids.  You have to work 5 hours a day, Monday through Friday.  Your neighbor says that she will give you two choices with how she will pay you.
 
Choice #1:  Your neighbor will give you $15 a day for the summer.
 
Choice #2 – Your neighbor will give you $0.01 for the first day that you babysit.  Then, every day after, she will double your pay.  So each day you will make double what you did the day before.
 
Which option would you choose?  Why would you choose this?

anonymous · Answer

I would go with $15 a day for the summer

anonymous · Answer

Is there a certain reason why you would the 15? I thought the 15 too, because if you just did the one cent it would only be going on 1 cent 2 cent 3 cent

anonymous · Answer

true

anonymous · Answer

The reason why I thought 15 because it is more money than a cent.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you for the help!

anonymous · Answer

your welcome