SOLUTION: The RideEm Bicycles factory can produce 170 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $10,500, and it can produce 190 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $11,400. (a) Find a linear

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Question 1203491: The RideEm Bicycles factory can produce 170 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $10,500, and it can produce 190 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $11,400.
(a) Find a linear function that models the total cost for RideEm to produce x bicycles.
C(x)= 45x + 2850
Correct: Your answer is correct.

(b) What are the company's daily fixed costs?
The fixed costs are 2850
Correct: Your answer is correct.
dollars.
(c) What is RideEm's variable costs?
The variable costs are
dollars.
JUST NEED C

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x bicycles
c cost
points (x,c)

Points indicated in description are (170,10500) and (190,11400).

You can find equation for the line containing those points.

slope is
slope is 45.
.
.

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