Question

A health food company sells packs of assorted nuts. The company incurs a monthly fixed cost of $1,400 for ingredients and raw materials plus packaging costs of $1 per bag.



write an expression that represents the total cost (y) of manufacturing x bags of nuts in a month

Answer 1

total cost is the sum of all costs. they give you a fixed cost and a variable cost.

Answer 2

we have to add 1440, as fixed cost to variable cost, which is: 1*x, where x is the number of bags, so we can write:
y=1,400+1*x
or:
\[y=x+1,400\]