Question

a bakery company charges $1.75 per slice okay for baking and X dollars her slice door decorating. part A how much would a decorated cake cost containing 150 slices? Part B if the company charge 0.35 cents per slice to decorate how much would the total cost be?

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} a)\text{ \$(262.5 + 150x)} \\ b)\text{ \$315} \end{gathered}`

Firstly, we want to get the cost of a decorated cost with 150 slices

From the question, we are told that the charge per slice for baking is $1.75

The cost of baking the 150 slices is thus;

`150*1.75\text{ = \$262.50}`

The cost of decorating the cake per slice is $x

So the cost of decorating the 150 slices will be;

`150\text{ }*\text{ x = \$150x}`

Thus, the total cost for the decoration will be;

`262.50\text{ + 150x = \$(262.50 + 150x)}`

Now, we have that the cost of decoration per slice. We simply replace the value x by 0.35

Thus, we have the total as;

`\text{ \$(262.5 + 150(0.35)) = \$(262.5 + 52.5) = \$315}`