Answer: see below
Step-by-step explanation:
h represents the number of houses. How i know this:
(1) the question states that each house costs $0.75. So 0.75h means 0.75 times a number of houses.
(2) h is used because houses starts with h. Also, h can't represent bikes because the "bikes" only appears in 1 number and doesn't have anything per bike. It only appears once.
15 represents the initial price of bike rentals.
- It says in the question, "Cycle City charges an initial price of $15 plus $0.75 per house for bike rentals". All of the information related to what 15 stands for is underlined. "Initial price" means a 1 time price that doesn't repeat. the 0.75 repeats based on how many houses you get.
0.75h represents the total cost for any number of houses.
(1) The question says "$0.75 per house" which means that each house costs 0.75. The h next to the 0.75 only means a number of houses. Whenever you see "something per something", expect the first letter of the 2nd word to be placed after the number.
If it doesn't make sense, let's say that h=1. In other words, we are buying 1 house. 0.75h means 0.75xh, so 0.75x1= 0.75. It's true. 1 house costs 0.75. You can also do 0.75x2, 0.75x3, and so on.
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