A mail courier charges a base fee of $6.95 plus $7.60 per package being delivered. If x represents the number of packages delivered, which of the following equations could be used to find y, the total cost of mailing packages?
Since 7.6 is the cost per package, and x represents the number of packages, the expression 7.6x would represent the cost for the packages. Once we add the base fee, we get the equation:
