Company A sells hats for $11 per hat plus a fixed $7 shipping and handling fee. Company B sells hats for $8 per hat plus a fixed $16 shipping and handling fee. The marketing director of company A wants to set up a system of equations to find the number of hats for which the total cost of an order for the two companies is the same. He uses the variables x and y. He lets y represent the total cost of an order. What will x represent?
A
x = total cost of an orderB
x = total cost of an orderC
x = shipping costs for company BD
x = shipping costs for company BE
x = shipping costs for company AF
x = shipping costs for company ASince y represents the total cost, x should represent the quantity that changes from order to order: the number of hats. The costs can then be written as y = 11x + 7 for Company A and y = 8x + 16 for Company B. Choice G says “x = number of hats.”
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