You are an entrepreneur selling handmade kites. Your company Kites-R-Fun has been contacted by a customer in Alaska who wants to purchase several of your best-selling kites and wants you to ship them to her.
You charge $4 per kite plus a flat rate of $8 to ship these items to Alaska.
Your competitor, Windy Kites, sells the same kites, but charges half of your price. They charge a flat rate of $20 for shipping
Multiply the number of kites by 4 and add 8 to get the cost at Kites-R-Us.
Multiply the number of kites by 2 and add 20 to get the cost at Windy Kites.
1) Fill in the table to find customer costs from each seller.
2) You charge $4 per kite plus a flat rate of $8 to ship these items to Alaska.
Your competitor, Windy Kites, sells the same kites, but charges half of your price. They charge a flat rate of $20 for shipping
Let y represent the total cost and x the number of kites purchased.
2) Write an equation to represent the customer's total cost to purchase from Kit
I'm not sure if I am correct or incorrect but these are my answers, I'm pretty sure they're correct but I'm not sure as I didn't turn it in yet
1. Fill in the table to find customer costs from each seller.
Kites Purchased | Total Cost for Kites-R-Fun | Total cost for Windy Kites |
0 8 20
1 12 22
4 16 42
7 20 62
10 24 82
2. Write an equation to represent the customer's total cost to purchase from Kite-R-Fun.
Y = 4x + 8
3. Write an equation to represent the customer's total cost to purchase from Windy Kites.
Y = 2x + 20
4. Based on your table, if the Alaskan customer wants to buy 4 kites, who charges the least?
Kites - R - Fun
5. If the Alaskan customer wants to buy 10 kites, who charges the least?
Windy Kites
6. (6, 32)
7. Looking at your graph, find the solution and explain what it means in this situation
This point represented where prices have intersected
is this right?
I got numbers 4, 7, and 10 incorrect so that's not right.
1) To fill in the table and find the customer costs from each seller, we can use the given equations:
Kites-R-Us (KRU): Total cost = (Number of kites * $4) + $8
Windy Kites (WK): Total cost = (Number of kites * $2) + $20
Let's assume the customer wants to purchase 3 kites.
For KRU: Total cost = (3 * $4) + $8 = $12 + $8 = $20
For WK: Total cost = (3 * $2) + $20 = $6 + $20 = $26
So, according to this calculation, the customer would pay $20 if she purchases 3 kites from KRU and $26 if she purchases 3 kites from WK.
2) To write an equation to represent the customer's total cost to purchase from Kites-R-Us, we can use the equation:
Total cost (y) = (Number of kites (x) * $4) + $8
Therefore, the equation representing the customer's total cost to purchase from Kites-R-Us is:
y = 4x + 8
Really? They not only gave you the information, but the steps to write the cost functions
so Kites-R-Us charges 4x+8
Windy charges 2x+20
I don't see any tables here, but yo can now answer any questions (which did not deign to ask) about these costs