Your friend uses the equation c = 50p to find the total cost, c, for the number of people, p, entering a local amusement park.
a. create a table and record the cost of entering the amusement park for several different-sized groups of people.
b. is the cost of admission proportional to the amount of people entering the amusement park? explain why or why not.
c. what is the unit rate, and what does it represent in the context of the situation?
d. sketch a graph to represent this relationship.
e. what points must be on the graph of the line if the two quantities represented are proportional to each other? explain why, and describe these points in the context of the problem.
f. would the point (5, 250) be on the graph? what does this point represent in the context of the situation?