Question

An amusement park charges $5.00 for admission and $5.00 per ride. Write an equation that gives the cost (in dollars ) as a function of number of rides.

Answer 1

Let the number of rides be represented by the variable n.

The cost of admission is $5.00, which is the fixed cost, regardless of the number of rides taken.

For each ride, the cost is an additional $5.00. If someone takes n rides, the total cost will be the sum of the admission cost and n times the cost per ride:

Cost = Admission cost + (Number of rides x Cost per ride)

or

Cost = $5.00 + ($5.00 x n)

Therefore, the equation that gives the cost in dollars as a function of the number of rides is:

Cost(n) = 5n + 5, where n is the number of rides.