The cost to rent a condominium at the beach is $1,500 per week. If two people share the cost, they each have to pay $750. Explai

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The cost to rent a condominium at the beach is $1,500 per week. If two people share the cost, they each have to pay $750. Explai

n why the relationship between the cost per person varies inversely with the number of persons sharing the cost. Then write an inverse variation function that can be used to calculate the cost per person, c, of p persons sharing the rental fee.

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netineya [11] · Answer 1 · 2023-06-06T11:35:20+03:00

Step-by-step explanation:

c = cost per person

p = number of people

The cost per person is 1500/p, where

is the number of people. A larger p creates a smaller value of c since they are INVERSELY RELATED.

I believe the inverse variation function is

c = 1500 × 1/p

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