444 Chapter9- Algebra 3. A company sells mail order T-shirts. The company charge

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444 Chapter9- Algebra 3. A company sells mail order T-shirts. The company charges S1 for each T-shirt and $8 for shipping, no matter how many T-shirts a customer orders. Examine the two different ways that students made a table: Work of Student 1 Work of Student 2 Total Cost (in Dollars), Number of T-shirts Ordered Number off T-shirts Total Cost (in Dollars) Ordered with Shipping 118 19 1930 30 1141 41 52 52 11 63 with Shipping 11 8 211 8 38 4.118 5.11 8 4 4 Discuss the two students" work. Which will be more useful for formulating an equation that relates two variables? Why? 4. Today a T-shirt company has 500 T-shirts in 9. To cook rice, you need to use 1 times as much

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Student 1 uses the (n-1) shirts' price to calculate the price of n shirts. On the contrary, student 2 uses a simple equation price of shirt*no of shirts + shipping cost. This equation simplifies the work that student 2 does. One need follow each step of the calculation to arrive at the result. Hence, student 2 does better work.

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