QUESTION IN DESCRIPTION

Question

in 2006 the average ticket price for a national football league game was $62.38. Since then the cost has increased an average of $2.54 per year. Write a linear equation to represent the cost of an NFL ticket.

Answer 1

Let x be number of years passed since 2006

and y be the price of ticket.

and m be yearly increase in price per  year.

So,

y = mx + c

or

y = 2.54 * x + 62.38