Sophia is in the business of manufacturing phones. She must pay a daily fixed cost of $200 to rent the building and equipment, and also pays a cost of $100 per phone produced for materials and labor. Make a table of values and then write an equation for C, commaC, in terms of p, commap, representing total cost, in dollars, of producing pp phones in a given day.
Number of Phones Manufactured Total Cost to Manufacture Phones
00
11
22
33
Number of Phones Manufactured Total Cost to Manufacture Phones
0 200
1 300
2 400
3 500
The equation for C in terms of p is:
C(p) = 200 + 100p