An amusement park charges an admission fee of 30 dollars for each person.Let C be the cost (in dollars) of admission for P people.

Question

Write an equation relating C to P . Then use this equation to find the cost of admission for 15 people.

Answer 1

To create an equation relating the cost \( C \) to the number of people \( P \), we can express the cost as:

\[ C = 30P \]

where \( C \) is the total cost in dollars and \( P \) is the number of people.

Now, to find the cost of admission for 15 people, we can substitute \( P = 15 \) into the equation:

\[ C = 30 \times 15 \]

Calculating this gives:

\[ C = 450 \]

Therefore, the cost of admission for 15 people is \( 450 \) dollars.