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The cost of a dinner varies directly as the number of people fed. In 2015 , a request for donations for a Thanksgiving dinner read, "You can feed 8 people with a gift of $\$ 18.00 .^{\prime \prime}$ How many people could be fed with a gift of $\$ 27.00 ?$
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Let's denote the cost of the dinner as $C$ and the number of people as $P$. According to the direct variation, we can write this relationship as $C = kP$, where $k$ is the constant of variation. Show more…
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