Question

The cost (in hundreds of dollars) of tuition at the community college is given by T = 1.25c + 3, where c is the number of credits the student has registered for. If a student is planning to take out a loan to cover the cost of 13 credits, use the model to determine how much money he should borrow.

Answer 1

The amount he should borrow is 19.25 hundreds dollars.

Explanation:

Given : The cost (in hundreds of dollars) of tuition at the community college is given by
`T = 1.25c + 3`, where c is the number of credits the student has registered for. If a student is planning to take out a loan to cover the cost of 13 credits.

To find : Use the model to determine how much money he should borrow?

Solution :

The model is given by
`T = 1.25c + 3`

Where,

c is the number of credits the student has registered.

T is the cost of tuition at the community college.

If a student is planning to take out a loan to cover the cost of 13 credits.

The amount he should borrow will get by putting the value of c in the model,

`T = 1.25c + 3`

`T = 1.25(13) + 3`

`T = 16.25 + 3`

`T =19.25`

Therefore, The amount he should borrow is 19.25 hundreds dollars.