Question

You are renting a beach house for the summer. The cost of renting the beach house plus the one-time security deposit is represented by the equation y = 151x + 575 , where represents the number of days that the beach house is rented and y is the total cost of the rental. What is the cost of the security deposit ?

Answer 1

The security cost is 575

Explanation:

Given

`y = 151x + 575`

x = days

y = cost

Required

Determine the security deposit

From the equation, we understand that

x represent days:

This implies that

151x represent the payment for x days.

So, the security cost is 575