Will give brainliest. in this activity, you will find out how many cars the baseball team needs to wash before it starts making a profit. the team spent $75 setting up the car wash, and they are charging $5 per car for a wash. the first step in modeling this situation is to track how much money the baseball team will take in. write an equation to represent the amount of money collected in dollars, y, in terms of the number of cars washed, x. ignore the setup cost.