Question

Julie is at the store buying groceries. She needs to get a quart of orange juice and some preaches. The quart of orange juice costs $2.25, and the peaches are $0.75 each. The function f(x)=0.75x+2.25 represents julies expenses at the grocery store. What do the f(x) and the x represent?

Answer 1

SOLUTION

From the funtion

$f\mleft(x\mright)=0.75x+2.25$$\begin{gathered} f\mleft(x\mright)\text{ represents the total amount of money Julie spent on the grocery } \\ \text{store, } \end{gathered}$

While

$x\text{ represents the number of peaches Julie bought }$