Question

Mr. Bessant found that an MP3 download site offers downloads of individual songs with the following price structure:

A $3 fixed fee for a monthly access pass plus a fee of $0.25 per song. Mr. Bessant spent $7.75 for the month.
Write an equation you could use to find out how many songs, s, Mr. Bessant downloaded.

Answer 1

To find out how many songs Mr. Bessant downloaded, we can use the equation: Total cost = Fixed fee + (Price per song x Number of songs).

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many songs Mr. Bessant downloaded, we can use the following equation:

Total cost = Fixed fee + (Price per song x Number of songs)

In this case, the fixed fee is $3 and the price per song is $0.25. Let's let the number of songs be represented by s. So the equation becomes:

7.75 = 3 + (0.25s)

To solve for s, we can subtract 3 from both sides:

7.75 - 3 = 0.25s

Now we can divide both sides by 0.25:

4.75 = s

Therefore, Mr. Bessant downloaded 4.75 songs. Since you can't have a fraction of a song, we can round down to 4 songs.