Answer:
It costs $15 a month to play the video game.
The initial cost is $45.
The y-variable represents the cost in dollars.
The x-variable represents the number of months.
Step-by-step explanation:
If you break the function down, you're going to have:
<u>Total = Monthly Cost + Initial Cost</u>
In this case, 15x is your monthly cost, as you can think of x as the number of months meaning:
- 15 for the first month (x = 1)
- 30 for the second month (x = 2)
- 45 for the third month (x = 3), and so on
Our initial cost is always going to be a set amount, thus our constant, $45.
This leaves y as our total, which makes sense, as it's all alone on one side of the equation, where as all the costs are bunched together on the right side.
Hope this helps!
