Question

Farmer Ron harvested x ears of corn. Ron keeps 1,500 ears of corn to 1 feed his livestock and he sells of the 4 remaining corn at the local farmer's market. Which function below could be used to find the number of ears of corn Ron sells at the farmer's market?

Answer 1

We have to find a function that represents the number of ears of corne he sells at the market.

The total harvest is x.

From this total, 1500 is kept for the livestock.

From what is left (x-1500), he sells 1/4 in the farmers market.

Then, he sells (1/4) of (x-1500)

We can write this as:

$f(x)=\frac{1}{4}(x-1500)$

The answer is option C.