SOLUTION: A high school class wants to raise money by recycling newspapers. The class decided to rent a trcuk at a cost of $150 for the week. The market price for recycled newspapers is $15
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Question 151125: A high school class wants to raise money by recycling newspapers. The class decided to rent a trcuk at a cost of $150 for the week. The market price for recycled newspapers is $15 per ton. Write an equation representing the amount of money the class will make based on the number of tons of newspapers collected. Please explain how to do this problem! Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A high school class wants to raise money by recycling newspapers. The class decided to rent a trcuk at a cost of $150 for the week. The market price for recycled newspapers is $15 per ton. Write an equation representing the amount of money the class will make based on the number of tons of newspapers collected. Please explain how to do this problem!
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Income(x) = 15x - 150 where x is the number of tons of newspapers collected.
The equation says "the income for x tons will be $15 times the number of
tons minus $150 for the cost of the truck".
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