SOLUTION: A customer spends $75 on sliced cheese. he also wants to donate $1 to a children's charity that the grocery store is promoting.what equation gives the customer's cost y per pound o

Question 1162562: A customer spends $75 on sliced cheese. he also wants to donate $1 to a children's charity that the grocery store is promoting.what equation gives the customer's cost y per pound of cheese as a function of total number of pounds x of cheese the customer receives?
a.y=75/x+1
b. y=75/x, +1
c. y=75/x-1
d. y=75/x,-1
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, amount SPENT on cheese
y, the cost of everything customer buys plus anything else

According to the equation and based on the description ("Spends $75 on sliced cheese"), .

NOTHING in the description showed anything about POUNDS of cheese or PRICE based on pounds. Only that "spent $75 on cheese".
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

None of the answer choices matches the described problem.

If he spends $75 on cheese and he buys x pounds of cheese, the formula for the cost per pound of the cheese is y = 75/x.

The $1 he donates to charity has nothing to do with the cost of the cheese. The problem says the $75 was spent on cheese. The $1 is IN ADDITION TO the $75, it is NOT PART OF that $75.

Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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After reading this absurdist post, I have a question:

does a customer just want to donate, or he just donated ?

Do you feel the difference ?

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Also, my impression is that the person who created this "problem", never in his (or her) life saw or read regular Math problem in a textbook.

Absolute and total mathematical illiteracy . . .

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