SOLUTION: A coffeehouse chain with 100 stores in a mature market has average sales of $25,000 per store per week. Management expects that adding new stores will decrease sales by $650 per st

Question 761900: A coffeehouse chain with 100 stores in a mature market has average sales of $25,000 per store per week. Management expects that adding new stores will decrease sales by $650 per store per week for each new store added. Write an equation for total sales, S, as a function of the number of additional stores, N.
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Answer by ramkikk66(644) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
With 100 stores, the total sales S = dollars per store per week
For 0 additional stores, the total sales is as given above.
For one additional store, sales will decrease by $650
So for N additional stores it will decrease by from the initial value given above
So the equation is
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