It costs $8 for admission to the Park City Ice Arena. In addition, renting skates costs $1 per hour.

Question

Write an equation that shows how the total cost, y, depends on the length of the rental in hours, x.
Do not include dollar signs in the equation.

Answer 1

The total cost \( y \) can be expressed as the sum of the admission cost and the cost of skate rental.

The admission cost is a fixed amount of $8, and the rental of skates costs $1 per hour. Therefore, if \( x \) represents the number of hours the skates are rented, the cost of skate rental will be \( 1 \cdot x = x \).

Putting this together, the equation will be:

\[ y = 8 + x \]