Question

A bakery charges a flat fee of $5 plus $2 for each muffin purchased. a.) Write an expression for the total cost of buying m muffins. b.) If a customer buys 8 muffins, what's the total cost?

Answer 1

a) 2m+5
b) $21 (21 dollars)

Explanation:

a) We are given that no matter how many muffins are purchased there will be a flat fee of 5 so we add +5 to an expression. Then we see each muffin costs $2 so we write 2m to notate that if we bought 1 muffin, $2 would be added to our expression.

Final answer: 2m +5

b) If a consumer buys 8 muffins their total cost will be 21 because 8 muffins at 2 dollars per muffin is $16 (2x8) and then we have to add the 5 dollar fee on which is 16+5 = 21

Final answer: $21