SOLUTION: To have a party at the sports club, you must pay $50 plus $5 per guest. Write an equation that relates the number of guest x to the cost of the party y. Use your equation to find t
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Question 21071: To have a party at the sports club, you must pay $50 plus $5 per guest. Write an equation that relates the number of guest x to the cost of the party y. Use your equation to find the cost of 12 guest.
Solution:
let y denote the cost and x denote the number of guests.
($50+$5)x=y
The cost of 12 guests,
12($50+$5)=y
12*$65 =y
780$=y
cost of the party for 12 guests is 780$
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