Question

The Sugar Sweet Company is going to transport its sugar to market. It will cost $2700 to rent trucks, and it will cost an additional $100 for each ton of sugar transported.

Answer 1

What's the question?

Answer 2

Let represent the total cost (in dollars), and let represent the amount of sugar (in tons) transported. Write an equation relating to , and then graph your equation using the axes below.

Answer 3

What is your fixed cost? In other words what number remains the same?

Answer 4

$2700

Answer 5

And your variable cost is?

Answer 6

$100s

Answer 7

the starting base is 2700, and will increase by 100 every time, so 2700 + 100x.

Answer 8

How will I graph it?

Answer 9

for the specific question it'd be C = 2700 + 100T ( for ton)

Answer 10

It would just be in slope intercept form, which you could graph, no?
If the initial is $2700 to rent trucks, that would be your y intercept.
And x = each ton of sugar, so 100 could be the slope.
Since y is the total cost the equation would then be
y = 100x + 2700
or write in function notation.
Then you just graph like you usually would with a given slope int. form.
x

Answer 11

100 being the slope? we could simplify that to make it easier to scale right

Answer 12

it would be y = 1x + 27

Answer 13

Yes take out divide by 100 to simplify.

Answer 14

27 being the y intercept

Answer 15

While graphing it, yeah.

Answer 16

that is a pic

Answer 17

I have huge numbers on the graph so 27 isn't on it so how can I while using bigger numbers.

Answer 18

that is the simplest it could get unless you make the slope 0.1 and the y intercept 2.7. but you would have to label your graph by 0.1 intervals which would be painful

Answer 19

Then use the original equation.

Answer 20

oh i took that the wrong way cx. i though there was not enough space