Write an equation..

Question

Please help: 

to make mp3 players, a cost estimator determined it costs a company $1500 per week for overhead and $45 for each MP3 player made. Define a variable to represent the numbers of players made. then write an equation to represent the company's total cost

Answer 1

Momo,

 

I'll assume the cost we're interested in is the total cost to the company in one week.

 

Let n represent the total number of players made in one week.

 

Then:

 

Total Cost_week = $45n + $1500