A bowling alley charges a flat fee to rent shoes. There is an additional fee for each game played. The function y=2.5x+3 represents the cost y of bowling x games. Interpret the parameters of the function.

represents the shoe rental charge.

represents the price per game.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.