Question

A landscape business charges $50 to deliver rocks. The cost of the rocks are $27 per cubic yard. write and solve a linear equation to find the cost of having 8 cubic yards of rocks delivered to a site.

Answer 1

Answer: 27x + 50 = y, $266

Step-by-step explanation:

First, let's form a linear equation that will help us find out how much that will cost.

Let's set x = the cubic yards of rocks delivered and y = total cost.

First, we know that the business charges 27 dollars for every x that you buy. That can be shown with a multiplication expression:

27x

Next, we know that the business charges a fixed fee of $50 for their services. This fee would be added on to the amount that they charge for the rocks that you buy.

27x + 50 = y

That's our linear expression! Next, we need to find out the total cost, y, when you need 8 cubic yards of rocks delivered, x.

To solve this, we need to substitute values for at least one of our variables.

Since 8 describes the cubic yards of rocks delivered, we can substitute 8 for x.

But we don't know y, the total cost- that's what we're solving for! In other words, we're solving for y.

Let's just substitute in what we know:

27(8) + 50 = y.

216 + 50 = y

y = 266

So, we know that it would cost $266 dollars to have 8 cubic yards of rocks delivered to a site.

By the way, you can also graph your linear equation to find the corresponding y-value to 8 as another way to solve your problem.