This is one of those problems where you'll sink like a rock if
you allow yourself to be blinded by all the useless, unnecessary,
irrelevant information in the first paragraph.
The ONLY information you need is:
-- You're chartering a bus for 1 day.
-- It costs $780 .
That's ALL .
(You don't even need to know that the bus has 55 seats.
You might need that for #8 - #12, but not for #6 or #7.)
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If the people on the trip are going to share the cost of the bus,
then the cost of each share depends on the number of people.
Less people ==> each one pays more.
More people ==> each one pays less.
Just like everybody in the office sharing the cost of
a birthday gift for the boss.
#6 and #7 should really be done in the reverse order ...
do #7 before you worry about #6.
Before you can fill in the table in #6, you absolutely need
to have the equation, whether or not you realize it.
The total cost is fixed . . . It's $780 .
If 2 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 2 .
If 3 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 3 .
If 4 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 4 .
If 5 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 5 .
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If 10 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 10 .
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If 20 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 20 .
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If ' n ' people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / n .
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. until the bus is full ...
.
If 55 people go on the trip, each one pays 780 / 55 .
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If 56 people go on the trip, then you need another bus,
and it gets more complicated.
But up to 55, the price per person is (780 / the number of people).
<span> #7). P = 780 / n .
</span>Now, filling in the table in #6 is a piece 'o cake.<span>
</span>5 people. . . . . . . 780 / 5
10 people . . . . . 780 / 10
15 people . . . . . 780 / 15
20 people . . . . . 780 / 20
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etc.
Just don't go past 55 people. The equation changes after that.
For ANY number of people, even hundreds, and ANY number
of buses, I think the equation looks something like this:
P = (785/n) · [ 1 + int(n/56) ] .
' int ' means ' the greatest integer in ... ', that is,
' throw away the fractional part of the quotient,
and use only the whole number '.
Ray is 12 miles from home.
Let x be Ray's distance from home. His distance is one leg of a right triangle; 5, Rosa's distance from home, is the other. The hypotenuse, the distance between them, is 1 more than Ray's distance from home, or x+1. Using the Pythagorean theorem,
5²+x²=(x+1)²
25+x²=(x+1)(x+1)
Multiplying the binomials, we have
25+x²=x*x+1*x+1*x+1*1
25+x²=x²+1x+1x+1
25+x²=x²+2x+1
Subtracting x² from both sides,
25 = 2x+1
Subtracting 1 from both sides,
24 = 2x
Divide both sides by 2, and we have
12 = x
Ray is 12 miles from home.
12? because they would all get 4 evenly and there would be 2 left over
Slope= y2-y1 / x2-x1
slope = 15 - (-1) / 3- (-1)
slope = 16 / 4
slope = 4
8-2(3x+5)=0
8(-6x-10)=0
-48x-80=0
-48x=80
x= -8/5 or -1.6
