Question

16. The graph shows the relationship between the total cost and the amount of rice purchased 32 20 Total price ($) Amount of rice (lb) Part A: What does the ordered pair (6, 30) represent? Part B: Which point on the graph represents the unit price? Part C: How many pounds would you have to buy for the total cost to be $20? Explain how to find the answer

Answer 1

For the information given in the statement you have:

Part A: According to the graph, the point (6,30) means that the total cost of 6 pounds of rice is $30.

Part B: The unit price per pound of rice can be seen in the graph at point (1,4), that is, the price of 1 pound of rice is $ 4.

Part C: To find out how many pounds you would have to buy for the total cost to be $ 20 you have to find the point whose second coordinate is 20, that is, point (4,20), then you would have to buy 4 pounds of rice for the total cost to be $20.