SOLUTION: Your Cool Uncle Carl is trying to decide between the purchase of a sports car or a station wagon. The sports car is cheaper to buy, but costs more insure. Specifically, the total c

Question 715909: Your Cool Uncle Carl is trying to decide between the purchase of a sports car or a station wagon. The sports car is cheaper to buy, but costs more insure. Specifically, the total cost of the sports car would be $15,000 plus $2,500 each year for insurance. The station wagon has a total cost of $18, 000 plus $1,000 per year. Write a system of equations if c represents the total cost of a car in dollars and n represents the number of years.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First equation (for sports car): c = 15000 + 2500n

Second equation (for station wagon): c = 18000 + 1000n
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