Red Ribbon Week starts Friday. If the average smoker pays $8.25 for packof cigarettes and smokes 1.5 P(packs per day). Using the equationC=8.25PT, determine how much does that smoker spend on cigaretteseach day? Each week? Each 30 day month? Each 365 day year? (T is theamount of time in days)

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You have the next equation:[tex]c=8,25PT[/tex]Data: P=1.5How much does that smoker spend on cigarettes:Each day: As T is amunt of time in days, to find how much that smoker spend on cigarettes in one day you: Sustitute the T by 1 in the equation:T=1day[tex]c=8,25(1.5)(1)[/tex][tex]c=12.375[/tex]Each day the smoker spends $12.375Each week: A week have 7 daysT=7days[tex]c=8,25(1.5)(7)[/tex][tex]c=86.625[/tex]Each week the smoker spends $86.625Each 30 day month: T=30 days[tex]c=8.25(1.5)(30)[/tex][tex]c=371.25[/tex]Each 30 day month the smoker spends $371.25Each 365 day year:T=365 days[tex]c=8.25(1.5)(365)[/tex][tex]c=4516.875[/tex]Each 365 day year the smoker spends $4516.875