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The cost of printing a catalog of the products that your company distributes is a flat rate of 52 plus0.20 per copy. Let C represent the total cost of printing and x represent the number of copies. Write in symbolic form an equation that will relate C and x.

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Answer: C = 0.2x + 52

Explanation:

C is the total cost, so we set up our equation in relation to that.

Every copy costs $0.20, so that's the coefficient.

There's a flat rate of 52, so we add that as a constant at the end.

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