When ringing up a customer, a cashier needs 3 seconds to scan each item and 9 seconds to process the

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When ringing up a customer, a cashier needs 3 seconds to scan each item and 9 seconds to process the payment. Let m represent the number of items and s represent the number of seconds to ring up a customer.

Build our equation R(m):
R(m) = ms + 9