Question

Nadia rented a stage platform at $410 for 4 days. If she rents the same stage platform for 8 days, she has to pay a total rent of $770.

Write an equation in the standard form to represent the total rent (y) that Nadia has to pay for renting the stage platform for x days.

Answer 1

usually for these problems there is a flat fee, plus an hourly/daily/etc. rate

we can express this as

amount paid = flat fee + hourly rate * number of days

try to set up this equation for both scenarios (the 4 day rent and the 8 day rent). you will end up with a system of equations, which you can then solve for the flat fee

Answer 2

Write the equation obtained in Part A using function notation.

Answer 3

Part C: Describe the steps to graph the equation obtained above on the coordinate axes. Mention the labels on the axes and the intervals.

Answer 4

then, once you have the flat fee, you can use one of the equations to solve for the hourly rate

and finally you can plug these back into the original equation to write the equation for part A

let me know if you are having trouble