Question

(01.05)

Anne has a total of 3,500 golf balls at home. She loses some golf balls when she goes out on the driving range daily. The number of golf balls, h(x), can be represented by the function h(x) = –150x + 3,500, where x is the number of days she plays golf. Suppose 3,500 changed to 4,000. What does this mean in the context of the problem?

Answer 1

That means that at some point she starts with 4000 balls, i.e. she purchased a set of balls to increase the number of them, and then the equation changed the constant value (y-intercept).