Question

Dianne pays $28 to enter a state fair, plus $2 for each ride. Which of the following equations represents her total cost?

A. y=28x+2
B. y=2x+28
C. y=28x
D. y=2x+30

Answer 1

Answer: The answer is B y=2x+28.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The answer: y = 2x + 28 and the reason is that $28 is a constant price that everyone MUST pay to enter the fair. $2 is the cost of each ride. That is why we need to multiply. We don’t know the number of rides she will go on, so we use x to represent the number of rides.