Question

Angeline bought s yards of satin fabric priced at $8. 09 per yard, and c yards of cotton fabric priced at $3. 79 per yard. Use an expression to determine the amount that Angeline would spend in all if she bought 5 yards of satin fabric and 8 yards of cotton fabric. Enter your answer in the box.

Answer 1

Let represents the total cost. We know for our problem that each yard of satin fabric costs $8.09, so yards will cost . similarly, each yard of cotton fabric costs $3.79, so yards will cost . We can also infer that the total cost, , will be the sum of the yards of satin fabric and the yards of cotton fabric, so:

Now, to determine the amount that Angeline would spend in all if she bought 5 yards of satin fabric and 8 yards of cotton fabric, we just need to replace and in our expression:

We can conclude that if Angeline would spend in all if she bought 5 yards of satin fabric and 8 yards of cotton fabric, she would spend $70.77