A driving range charges $3 to rent a golf club, plus $2.25 for every buckets of golf balls you drive. Wrote an equation, that shows the total cost of b buckets of golf balls. Is this a linear equation?

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lgbasallote · Answer

ugh let c = golf clubs; b= buckets

3c + 2.25b = t

where t= total amount paid

can you manipulate that to find b?

anonymous · Answer

... wat is manipulate ?

lgbasallote · Answer

uhh "isolate" b? what term do you use when you put b on one side alone?

anonymous · Answer

I don't know... I'm a seventh grader :| haven't learnt it yet though... so srry.

anonymous · Answer

Can you teach me further on more?

parthkohli · Answer

Do you know how equality works?

anonymous · Answer

A bit....

parthkohli · Answer

And do you know that if two numbers are equal, then whatever you do to both will be equal?

anonymous · Answer

yup.

parthkohli · Answer

Now, where do you have the problem in @lgbasallote 's equation?

anonymous · Answer

igbasallote ask me to manipulate, I don't know how to "manipulate"

parthkohli · Answer

It just means, doing such things to an equality, that you get something in the end like:

$\Large \color{MidnightBlue}{\Rightarrow b = \text{Something} }$

anonymous · Answer

yea, i get that, but how though ?

parthkohli · Answer

1) Subtract 3c from both of the sides.
2) Divide both sides by 2.25

anonymous · Answer

ohhthank youu.