Mrs. Green has to buy enough candy canes for every student in her school to each get one. Candy canes are sold 10 to a box for $3 a box. There are 7 teams in the school, and each team has between 93 and 116 students. a. Is this situation discrete or continuous? How do you know? b. What is the domain and range? (Really think about what you are collecting data on in this question)

a. This is because we can only have a whole number of students which in turn leads to a whole number of candies. Also, since the cost of each candy box is $ 3/10 = $ 0.3, it is a real number. So, the total cost of candy will also be a real number. Thus, the situation is discrete for the domain and continuous for the range.

b. i. Let x be the number of students which also equals number of candies to be bought. Since there are 7 teams and between 93 and 116 students per team, the minimum number of students is 93 × 7 = 651 and the maximum number of students is 116 × 7 = 812. So, the domain, the number of candies is 651 ≤ x ≤ 812.

ii. The range of the function is the cost of the candies. Since the cost of the candies is $ 3 per box and there are 10 per box, each candy costs $ 3/10 = $ 0.3. So the total cost of candies C = cost per candy × number of students = $0.3x.

So, the range of the candies is the minimum and maximum values of students times $ 0.3. So, 651 × $ 0.3 ≤ x ≤ 812 × $ 0.3 = $ 195.3 ≤ x ≤ $ 243.6