Question

Marshall is going to make an apple pie. He buys x pounds of apples and a pie crust that costs $4.50. The total cost in dollars. y. can be found using the equation below. y = 2.57x +4.5 What is the cost per pound of the apples

Answer 1

1) Considering that x is for pounds of apples and y is a total cost of an apple let's find the cost per pound of the apples, given that the y=2.57x +4.5

Let's turn that function into an equation

0=2.57x +4.5 Subtract 2.57x from both sides

-2.57x=4.5 Divide both sides by -2.57

x=-1.75

2) So if no one pie crust is sold, there is going to be a loss of $-1.75, according to that equation.

Therefore, we can infer that the cost per pound of the apples is $1.75