Question

The student council is selling carnations for Valentine's Day. Two different shops can provide these flowers. . Gracie's Flowers charges a $5.00 fee per order plus $0.75 per carnation Ben's Blooms charges a $10.00 fee per order plus $0.25 per carnation for an order. Gracie tells you the equation that would work with her shop: Using c to represent the total cost for an order of carnations and n to represent the number of carnations in the order, her equation is c=0.75n + 5.00 Ben is not sure how to write the equation for his shop. Fill in the following blanks to help him: C = nt​

Answer 1

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Answer:

c = 0.25n +10.00

Explanation:

The form of the equation is ...

c = <cost per carnation>n + <fixed fee>

For Ben's shop, the equation would be ...

c = 0.25n + 10.00