SOLUTION: When a company spends no money on advertising, it sells 300 units. But for each additional $5000 spent, an additional 20 units are sold. Question: If x is the amount of money th

Question 263200: When a company spends no money on advertising, it sells 300 units. But for each additional $5000 spent, an additional 20 units are sold.
Question: If x is the amount of money that the company spends on advertising, find a formula for y, the number of units sold as a function of x.
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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"When a company spends no money on advertising, it sells 300 units" means that When x=0, then y=300 giving us the point (0,300)

"But for each additional $5000 spent, an additional 20 units are sold" adds 5000 to x=0 to get x=5000 and adds 20 to y=300 to get y=320. So we have another point (5000,320)

Now let's assume that we're dealing with a linear equation (ie a straight line). We only need to points to find the equation of this line. So let's find the equation of the line that goes through the points (0,300) and (5000,320)

First let's find the slope of the line through the points

and

Note:

is the first point

. So this means that and .
Also,

is the second point

. So this means that and .

Start with the slope formula.

Plug in , , , and

Subtract from to get

Subtract from to get

Reduce

So the slope of the line that goes through the points

and

is

Now let's use the point slope formula:

Start with the point slope formula

Plug in , , and

Distribute

Multiply

Add 300 to both sides.

Combine like terms.

Simplify

So the equation that goes through the points

and

is

Note: your book might want everything in decimal form. Since , this means that the equation is also
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