Cathy earns $8.40 per hour at her job at Joey's Candy Shop and $6.50 per hour at her job in Santa's Village. On Saturday she worked 3.5 hours at
Joey's Candy Shop and 2.5 hours at Santa's Village. What were her total
samnings for the day?

HEL FAS

Look, when you want to do something like put it like x^2. x2 could mean x² or x₂. so to clear confusion, know the notation. to find the product multiply the x's and you get -8x and the y's and you get 6y. since it's all being multiplied it is just -8x6y, or answer a. although the better answer is -48xy(combining -8 and 6) because you should multiply constants whenever you can.