SOLUTION: A company has a manufacturing plant that is producing quality USB drives. They find that in order to produce 160 USB drives in a month, it will cost $3600. Also, to produce 490 USB

Question 1010793: A company has a manufacturing plant that is producing quality USB drives. They find that in order to produce 160 USB drives in a month, it will cost $3600. Also, to produce 490 USB drives in a month, it will cost $6900. Find an equation in the form y=mx+b, where x is the number of USB drives produced in a month and y is the monthly cost to do so.
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39626) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Points (x,y) are (160, 3600) and (490, 6900).

pick either point.
, if to four significant figures

Answer by MathTherapy(10556) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A company has a manufacturing plant that is producing quality USB drives. They find that in order to produce 160 USB drives in a month, it will cost $3600. Also, to produce 490 USB drives in a month, it will cost $6900. Find an equation in the form y=mx+b, where x is the number of USB drives produced in a month and y is the monthly cost to do so.

Equation:
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