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Jessica is organizing a guided tour of the rain forest. The average profit per person that the touring company makes is given by the rational expression 18x+35/x, where x is the number of people going on the tour. What does the numerator of this rational expression represents?

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Answer:

the numerator is how much money the touring company is making all together

the denominator shows how many people are going on the tour.

Explanation:

User Aleksandar G
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Answer: The numerator (18x+35) of the rational expression represents the sum of profits earned by touring company

Explanation:

The average is given by:-


A=\frac{\text{Sum of all observations }}{\text{Number of all observations}}

It is given that The average profit per person that the touring company makes is given by the rational expression
(18x+35)/(x), where x is the number of people going on the tour.

Here, the denominator (x) represents the total number of people going on the tour.

The numerator (18x+35) of the rational expression represents the sum of profits earned by touring company

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