Question

Jessica is organizing a guided tour of the rain forest. The average profit per person that the touring company makes is given by the rational expression 18x+35/x, where x is the number of people going to the tour.

PART B: What does the denominator of this rational expression represent?
a) The total profit per person
b) The number of people going on the tour
c) The fixed cost of organizing the tour
d) The profit made by the touring company

Answer 1

The denominator of the rational expression represents the number of people going on the tour. Hence the correct answer is option B

Step-by-step explanation:

The denominator of the rational expression, 18x+35/x, represents the number of people going on the tour. In this case, x represents the number of people. The denominator is the bottom part of the fraction, which indicates how many people are going on the tour.

Hence the correct answer is option B