Question

The cost of a pencil is described by the equation y=$0.19x
. What is the cost for one pencil?

Answer 1

The number of points that Pedro scored in the basketball game is represented by the equation 4y=104x
. In this equation, y
represents the total number of points and x
represents number of games. How many points did Pedro average per game?

Answer 2

To find the cost of one pencil using the equation \( y = 0.19x \), you need to substitute \( x = 1 \) (since \( x \) represents the number of pencils).

Substituting:

\[
y = 0.19 \times 1 = 0.19
\]

Therefore, the cost for one pencil is \( y = 0.19 \) dollars, or 19 cents.

Answer 3

To find Pedro's average points per game, we can start with the equation given:

\[
4y = 104x
\]

First, let's solve for \( y \) (the total number of points) by dividing both sides of the equation by 4:

\[
y = \frac{104x}{4}
\]

Simplifying this gives:

\[
y = 26x
\]

This means that for every game (\( x \)), Pedro scores an average of 26 points. Therefore, Pedro averaged **26 points per game**.