Danny is thinking of buying a gym membership. He has two gums available to choose from. Gym A has a $35 initial fee and costs $4
2 per month.Gym B has $65 initial fee and costs $36 per month. After how many months will the overall cost if both gym memberships be the same? How much will that be?
For this, all you have to do is create equations where all you have to do is change the x value. The equation for gym A would be 35 + 42x, where x is the number of months he has the membership, and the first number is the initial fee. The equation for gym B would be 65 + 36x, following the same rules. Now all you have to do is set both of these equations equal to each other: 65+36x=35+42x Solving this equation results in x=5, which means that he has to have the memberships for 5 months for them to be equal. Now just plug that in to one side of the equation to get the amount he has to spend: 65+36(5) = $245
