SOLUTION: A vendor has learned that, by pricing caramel apples at $1.50, sales will reach 133 caramel apples per day. Raising the price to $2.25 will cause the sales to fall to 103 caramel

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Question 914789: A vendor has learned that, by pricing caramel apples at $1.50, sales will reach 133 caramel apples per day. Raising the price to $2.25 will cause the sales to fall to 103 caramel apples per day. Let y be the number of caramel apples the vendor sells at x dollars each. Write a linear equation that relates the number of caramel apples sold per day to the price x.

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
answer
Check the equation:
suppose






OK
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Soppose
( $3 )





Correct because every $.75 increase in price
will lower by , and
$3 is $1.50 + ( $.75 )*2
and that makes a decrease of 60 in
Make sense?



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