Question

you have $1 and you are going to buy some pencils and 7 patties let X represent the number of pencils you can buy and let y represent the number of peppermint patties you can buy if pencils cause 0.10 each and Peppermint Patties cost 0.05 each write a linear equation in standard form that represents this situation what does the x intercept represent? what does the Y intercept represent

Answer 1

Let:

x = Number of pencils you can buy

y = Number of peppermint patties you can buy

a = cost of each pencil

b = cost of each peppermint patty

The standard form of a linear equation is given by:

`\begin{gathered} Ax+By=C \\ \\ \end{gathered}`

So:

`0.1x+0.05y=1`

The graph of this equation is:

The x-intercept represents the maximum number of pencils you can buy

The y-intercept represents the maximum number of peppermint patties you can buy