Question

when the senior class decided to order t-shirt. they were quoted a price of 7.50 per shirt plus a setup fee. the total cost for 300 shirts was 2,450. write an equation in the form y=mx+b that represent the cost ,y, for x shirt

Answer 1

Do you want help to go through it step by step?

Answer 2

yep

Answer 3

The graph of the equation is of the above form. What do you think is the cost where the graph touches the y axis?

Answer 4

What is the cost here?

Answer 5

3

Answer 6

How did you get that?

Answer 7

The cost at that point is the amount to be paid, regardless of the number of shirts that are ordered. Therefore it is the 'setup fee' mentioned in the question. To find the amount of the setup fee we need to use the information that is given about the total cost of 300 shirts. Do you follow so far?

Answer 8

not really