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Question 1139073: A community recreation center is having a fundraising event. They are selling products in which they will bring $500.
The entrance fee is $5 per person. What equation gives the total cost per person, y, as a function of the number of
people, x, if everyone buys the same amount?
Answer by ikleyn(52832)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A community recreation center is having a fundraising event. They are selling products in which they will bring $500.
The entrance fee is $5 per person. What equation gives the total cost per person, y, as a function of the number of
people, x, if everyone buys the same amount?
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The combination of words  "total cost per person"  is incorrect usage of English and mockery on common sense.


There is "total cost".  It is  $500 in this problem.


And there is  "price", which by definition is the cost per one unit. In this post it is  $5 per person.


But  "the total cost per person" is an absurdist combination of words, which is NEVER used.


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