ite an expression that represents the cost in dollars of buying any number of hats h in any number of shirts s. the find the cost of buying 4 hats and 3 shirts.

Question

What do we know?

What do we want to find out?

Solve.

Answer 1

We do not know the price of the hat nor the shirt.

Suppose the price of the hat is H and the price of the shirt is S.

Then the cost is P( t,x) = Ht + xs where t is the number of hats and x is the number of shirts

Finally P(4,3) = 4H + 3s