Question

The deli charges $4.50 for a salad weighing 3 pounds and $6.00 for a salad weighing 4 pounds. What EQUATION can be used to represent the cost of the salad, y, for x pounds of salad?

Answer 1

y = 1.5x

Explanation:

Charge for 3 pounds of salad is $4.50

Charge per pound is thus 4.5/3 = $1.5

Now, we want to write an equation that can be used to represent the cost of salad y for x pounds of salad

Mathematically, that will be;

y = 1.5x