SOLUTION: A high school class wants to raise money by recycling newspapers. The class decided to rent a truck at a cost of $150 for the week. The market price for recycled newspapers is $15
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Question 192880: A high school class wants to raise money by recycling newspapers. The class decided to rent a truck at a cost of $150 for the week. The market price for recycled newspapers is $15 per ton. Write an equation representing the amount of money the class will make based on the number of tons of newspapers collected.. Explain what you did to get your answer.
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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"profit" = "amount paid for newspaper" - "cost of rental truck"
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Let x = tons of newspaper collected for recycling
then
f(x) is the "profit" as a function of x
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f(x) = 15x - 150
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