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Hye ryung is the president of the local chapter of the american medical students association (amsa). she is organizing local outreach and informational meetings. at her first meeting there are five people present (including herself). every month after that her group grows by 5 people. a. how many members are in the group after 6 months? b. the logistics of hosting and feeding her group at meetings was more complicated than expected. the cost of feeding 5 people at her first meeting was $30, for 10 people it was $35, for 15 it was $45, and after 6 months all of the costs had added up to $100. write a function to model the cost with the number of people attending meetings. c. what connections can you make between the linear growth of the group’s membership and the increasing costs of running meetings?

Martin likes to make flower bouquets that have 3 daffodils and 4 tulips per vase. a daffodil has a mass of d grams, a tulip has a mass of t grams, and the vase has a mass of u grams. the expression 5(3d + 4t + v) describes the mass of 5 bouquets. match each amount in the situation with the expression that represents it. situation expression number of bouquets mass of one bouquet mass of the tulips in one bouquet 4t mass of the daffodils in one bouquet 3d + 4t + v

Arianna is buying plants for her garden. she buys 15 flowering plants for $96. pink flowering plants sell for $8, and purple flowering plants sell for $5. how many pink flowering plants did arianna buy? i figured out the answer! the answer is 7. 8x +5y = 96 plug in 7 for x 8 (7) + 5y = 96 56 + 5y = 96 subtract 56 from both sides 5y/y = 40/5 y = 8 she bought 7 pink and 8 purple plants