Question

The base ticket price for a football game is modeled by the function p(x)=15x+10,where x is the years since the team started playing football.not included in each base ticket price is a service charge modeled by the function c(x) =5x+2. To find the total cost of a ticket , a fan should use what operation on the polynomials? Answer choices include:

Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
It cannot be determined
please explain why

Answer 1

it would be adittion as you have to add the two final prices

Answer 2

total=base price+service price

so use addition because the total=the 2 prices

so it would be p(x)+c(x)=15x+10+5x+2=20x+12

addition