Question

PLEASE HELP 15 POINTS,

It is now time to complete the Utilities Discussion. Research the cost of some sort of household bill. Examples are natural gas, electricity, water, etc. Find one that models a linear function and write a function to represent the cost of this utility.

Explain how you found your information and wrote your function. Be sure to define your variables, use function notation.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

I take gas consumption as example.

Consider the followings,

Let M be the gas meter reading per month

A be the fuel adjustment fee

B be monthly maintenance fee

Y be unit cost per Joule

Let X be monthly bill

( 1 meter reading unit = 48 unit of Joule )

Monthly bill payment :

X = Mx48xY + A + B

in function notation, the monthly bill is f(M, Y, A, C)