Yusef earned a total of n dollars from drawing x identically-priced pictures at a festival. Write an equation to describe the relationship between x, the number of pictures, and n, the total earnings.
Q. Yusef earned a total of n dollars from drawing x identically-priced pictures at a festival. Write an equation to describe the relationship between x, the number of pictures, and n, the total earnings.
Identify variables: Identify the variables.Let n = number of pictures Yusef draws.Let E = total earnings from the pictures.
Determine price per picture: Determine the price per picture.Since Yusef earns a total of E dollars from n identically-priced pictures, the price per picture is nE.
Write equation: Write the equation.The total earnings E is the product of the price per picture and the number of pictures.So, E=price per picture×n.But we have a problem here, we can't use E/n as the price per picture because we don't know E or n yet. We need a different variable for the price per picture.
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