The seventh-grade class is selling boxes of votive candles as a fundraiser. The first box purchased costs $14.00, and each addit
ional box costs $10.00. b. An equation that relates the total money spent on boxes of candles, C, to the number of additional boxes purchased, b, is
c. Using the equation from part (b), the total money spent by a person who bought 3 boxes of candles for the fundraiser would be $
A linear equation has 1 for all exponents on the placeholders aka the equation is first degree (aka the hightest exponent on placeholders=1) so it is linear