SOLUTION: Imagine you are at a gas station filling your tank with gas. The function C(g) represents the cost C of filling up the gas tank with g gallons. Given the equation C(g)=3.50(g) Ple
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Question 322390: Imagine you are at a gas station filling your tank with gas. The function C(g) represents the cost C of filling up the gas tank with g gallons. Given the equation C(g)=3.50(g) Please help don't understand!!!!
What does the number 3.50 represent in this problem?
Found 2 solutions by solver91311, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Think about this for just a minute. You go to a store to buy something. You buy some number of this one thing -- like 3 loaves of bread or 5 t-shirts or 6 gallons of gasoline. How much money did you spend? The number of things times the price for one, right?
So if the total cost at the gas station is \ =\ 3.50g)
and 
represents the number of gallons of gas you bought, what must the 3.50 represent?
John
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The 3.50 is simply the price per gallon.
Ex: g=1 which means C(1) = 3.50(1) = 3.50 (ie 1 gallon of gas costs $3.50)
when g=2, C(2) = 3.50(2) = 7.00 (ie 2 gallons of gas cost $7.00)
when g=3, C(3) = 3.50(3) = 10.50 (ie 3 gallons of gas cost $10.50)
etc...
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