The school art club at a large high school is in charge of designing school T-shirts and getting them printed this year. A local business charges $35 to set up their T-shirt printing
machine with the design and $4.25 in materials per T-shirt to print.
1. Create an equation to represent the average cost C(x), in dollars, per T-shirt if x
, x
T-shirts are printed by this business.
2. What is the average cost per shirt to print 25 shirts? 100 shirts?
3. What is the cheapest the average cost per T-shirt will get? Explain or show your
reasoning.
4. How many shirts should be printed to have an average cost of $5 or less per shirt?
Explain how you know.