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percy is going to the water slides and needs to figure out which deal is better he can pay$30 to go on the water slides as much as he wants or he can pay$15 to get in plus an additional $1 per trip down the water slides if percy goes on a certain number of trips down the water slides the two options are equvinlet in terms of cost what is the costwrite a system of equtions graph them and type the solution

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Solution:

Let the first option be x and the second option be y.

Let the number of trips down the water slides be z.

Thus;


\begin{gathered} x=30 \\ \\ y=15+z \end{gathered}

When the two options are equivalent;

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