SOLUTION: Tickets to a comedy show where all the same price. The ticket agency as a fixed fee to every order. A person who orders 5 tickets pays $93. A person who orders two tickets pays $4

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Question 1101766: Tickets to a comedy show where all the same price. The ticket agency as a fixed fee to every order. A person who orders 5 tickets pays $93. A person who orders two tickets pays $42. What does the y intercept represent?
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The ticket agency adds a fixed fee of %22%248%22 to every order.
The price y of the order
varies linearly with the number x of tickets ordered as
y=mx%2Bb
m=%2893-42%29%2F%285-2%29=51%2F3=17 ,
so the price of each ticket is %22%2417%22.
For 2 tickets , x=2 and y=42 .
Substituting those values and m=17 , we get
42=17%2A2%2Bb
42=34%2Bb
42-34=b
b=8