You want 3 loaves of bread, at $1.50 a piece and a jar of jelly, at $4. So set up the equation 3(1.5)+1(4). You don't want peanut butter so that's unnecessary information. Your total is $8.50, so subtract that from 10, you get 1.5. You will have $1.50 left over.
Given:
Price of gold in 2001 = (0.5x+300)
Its price tripled in 2008 and then doubled in 2011. In 2016, its price dropped to
of the price in 2011.
To find:
An expression for the price of gold per ounce in 2016.
Solution:
We have,
Price of gold in 2001 
Its price tripled in 2008.
Price of gold in 2008 
Then doubled in 2011.
Price of gold in 2011 
In 2016, its price dropped to
of the price in 2011.
Price of gold in 2016 




Therefore, the required expression for the price of gold per ounce is (2x+1200).
Step-by-step explanation:
First step:
Calculate a slope.
The formula of a slope:

The slope-intercept form of an equation of a line:

m - slope
b - y-intercept
We have the points (5, -4) and (-1, 8). Substitute:

Put the value of the slope and the coordinates of the point (5, -4) to the equation of a line:

<em>add 10 to both sides</em>

Finally:

Add 1 to both sides:

In cases like this, we have to remember that a root is always positive, so we can square both sides only assuming that

Under this assumption, we square both sides and we have

The solutions to this equation are

But since we can only accept solutions greater than -1, we discard
and accept
.
In fact, we have

and

which is the only solution.