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A certain seafood restaurant gets a delivery of fresh seafood every day of the week. If the delivery company charges \(d\) dollars per delivery and \(c\) cents per delivered item and the restaurant has an average (arithmetic mean) of \(x\) items delivered per day, then which of the following is an expression for the total cost, in dollars, of one week's deliveries?

A. \(\frac{7cdx}{100}\)
B. \(d+\frac{7cx}{100}\)
C. \(7d+\frac{xc}{100}\)
D. \(7d+\frac{7xc}{100}\)
E. \(7cdx\)

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by Scott@TargetTestPrep » Thu May 16, 2019 6:55 pm
BTGmoderatorLU wrote:Source: Princeton Review

A certain seafood restaurant gets a delivery of fresh seafood every day of the week. If the delivery company charges \(d\) dollars per delivery and \(c\) cents per delivered item and the restaurant has an average (arithmetic mean) of \(x\) items delivered per day, then which of the following is an expression for the total cost, in dollars, of one week's deliveries?

A. \(\frac{7cdx}{100}\)
B. \(d+\frac{7cx}{100}\)
C. \(7d+\frac{xc}{100}\)
D. \(7d+\frac{7xc}{100}\)
E. \(7cdx\)

The OA is D
Since each delivered item costs c/100 dollars, the total weekly delivery cost of delivering x items per day, plus the d dollar delivery charge per delivery is 7(d + (c/100) * x) = 7d + 7cx/100 dollars.

Answer: D

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