Question

Customers can pick their own blueberries at Blueberry Hill. They pay $5 to enter the patch and $4 per pound for the blueberries they pick. Write an equation to model the total cost, y, for x pounds of blueberries.

A. y = 4x + 5
B. y = 4(x + 5)
C. y = x(5 + 4)
D. y = 5x + 4

Answer 1

the answer is A (5 + 4 times how many pounds)

Answer 2

Option (a) is correct.

Total cost y = 4x + 5

Explanation:

Given: Customers can pick their own blueberries at Blueberry Hill.

They pay $5 to enter the patch and $4 per pound for the blueberries they pick.

We have to write an equation to model the given expression.

Let the total cost be y,

And x denotes the amount in pounds of blueberries.

Since, Given to enter the patch customers pay $5 (fixed)

and Given the customers pay $4 per pound for the blueberries they pick so for x pounds of blueberries cost 4x

Thus, total cost y = 4x + 5

Thus, Option (a) is correct.