SOLUTION: Business and finance. The cost, in dollars, of typing a term paper is given as 3 times the number of pages plus 20. Use y as the number of pages to be typed and write a polynomial

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Question 77085: Business and finance. The cost, in dollars, of typing a term paper is given as
3 times the number of pages plus 20. Use y as the number of pages to be typed and write a polynomial to describe this cost. Find the cost of typing a 50-page paper. Show your work.
This is my answer is it write?
3y + 20, $169

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If y=50, 3y+20 is 150+20 is 170, not 169.
Cheers,
Stan H.

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