Question

Kylie is in the business of manufacturing phones. She must pay a daily fixed cost to rent the building and equipment, and also pays a cost per phone produced for materials and labor. The daily fixed costs are $600 and and the total cost of producing 4 phones in a day would be $1600. Write an equation for C,C, in terms of p,p, representing total cost, in dollars, of producing pp phones in a given day.

Answer 1

Answer:

C= 400P+ 600

Step-by-step explanation:

In this problem, we are to model the equation for the total cost of producing a phone

Given that the fixed cost is $600

Also, the total cost of producing 4 phones in a day is $1600

hence the cost of producing 1 phone would be 1600/4= $400

the equation for producing p phones would be

C= 400P+ 600

This equation is the same as the equation of a straight line Y=mx+c

with C=y

400= m= gradient

P=x, the dependent variable

600= c the constant term.