Jane is organizing a fundraiser to buy a ping-pong table for the community center. The table costs $500.00. Jane is asking contributors to pay for an equal share of the cost of the table. She already has five contributors lined up. What function models the cost per share, C, with respect to the number of new contributors, n? How many new contributors must Jane recruit in order for the cost of each share to be $20.00?

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superdavesuper · Answer

hmmm is there any reason why the prob is set up so complicated? it is 500/20 right? i must be missing something....

anonymous · Answer

What confuses me is where the question says 5 contributors who have offered to pay for two shares each, does that mean they pay twice as much as any additional contributors?

superdavesuper · Answer

sorry i dont understand it either i would say ans is 500/20-5 but i dont know :(

anonymous · Answer

Thanks for trying :)