Question

A fast-food company manufactures bags of chips. Every month there is a fixed cost on the ingredients and raw materials which is $1,400. The cost of making one bag includes the packaging cost and the cost of making the chips which is 10¢ per bag. What is the expression that represents the total cost of manufacturing x bags of chips in a month?

Answer 1

The total cost for the production of x bags of the chips is equal to the sum of the fixed cost, $1400, and the variable cost which is dependent on the number of bags produced. The final expression for the total cost,
total cost = 1400 + 0.10x