Each month you get your water bill in the mail. You know that each month you are charged a service fee of $22 and a fixed rate, m, per gallon of water used. This month you used a total of 2,256 gallons of water and were charged $31.02 Write a function, c, that relates the number of gallons of water consumed in a month, x, to the total cost of the bill, c(x).

Each month you get your water bill in the mail. You know that each month you are charged a service fee of $22 and a fixed rate, m, per gallon of water used. This month you used a total of 2,256 gallons of water and were charged $31.02 Write a function, c, that relates the number of gallons of water consumed in a month, x, to the total cost of the bill, c(x).

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter8: Polynomials

Section8.1: Adding And Subtracting Polynomials

Problem 44PPS

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