Question a-gym-
A gym charges its members a onetime enrollment fee and a membership fee of per month. If there are no charges other than the enrollment fee and the membership fee, after how many months will a member have been charged a total of at the gym?
A gym charges its members a onetime $ 36 enrollment fee and a membership fee of
Medium-difficulty · SAT Math · Linear Equations in One Variable — Single-variable equations (multi-step). Read the question above, select your answer, and check the full explanation below to understand exactly why the correct choice works.
Answer explanation
Choice C is correct. It’s given that a gym charges its members a onetime enrollment fee and a membership fee of per month. Let represent the number of months at the gym after which a member will have been charged a total of . If there are no charges other than the enrollment fee and the membership fee, the equation can be used to represent this situation. Subtracting from both sides of this equation yields . Dividing both sides of this equation by yields . Therefore, a member will have been charged a total of after months at the gym.
Choice A is incorrect. A member will have been charged a total of , or , after months at the gym.
Choice B is incorrect. A member will have been charged a total of , or , after months at the gym.
Choice D is incorrect. A member will have been charged a total of , or , after months at the gym.
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