A person travelling in an auto found that the fare of the journey consists of fixed charge together with the charge for the distance covered. The equation x+10y=200 represents ,when the person travels 10 km. Find out the variable which represents the fixed charge in the equation.
Since there is a partially fixed component and varying component and the varying component varies with the kilometres travelled.
In the equation x+10y=200, y is the variable varying with the kilometres travelled since it is multiplied by 10 and x is the fixed component which is independent of the kilometre.
Answer is x