A food delivery service charges a fixed shipping fee of $9.50 on all orders. Each meal kit ordered from the service cos…

The total cost, C, is the sum of two parts: the cost of the meal kits and the fixed shipping fee. The cost of the meal kits depends on the number of kits, k. Since each kit costs $22.00, the cost for k kits is 22k. The shipping fee is a fixed amount, $9.50, that is added once to the total order.

Therefore, the equation that represents the total cost is C = 22k + 9.50.

A is incorrect because it reverses the roles of the per-kit cost and the fixed shipping fee, treating the shipping fee as a variable cost and the kit price as a fixed fee.

B is incorrect because it only accounts for the cost of the meal kits and omits the fixed shipping fee.

D is incorrect because it results from adding the fixed shipping fee to the cost of each kit (22 + 9.50 = 31.50) and then multiplying by k. This incorrectly treats the fixed shipping fee as a variable cost applied to every kit.