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Your school is planning a banquet. The cost of renting a function room is $240. The cost of food is $13 for each person attending. Write an expression for the total cost for p people. Then evaluate your expression for 58 people

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First you multiply 13*240 and then divide that answer to 58
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240 is the base cost. there is 13 per person. the equation is
240+13x (people)
Plug in 58 for X and get 754+240 and you get 994.
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