Question

Martin is saving money to buy a new phone that costs $1,000 by selling trees. he is using an app to manage his sales, but it keeps a fraction of each sale. his net pay is modeled by the function p(x) = x2 20x – 196, where x represents the number of sales. how many sales does martin need to make to earn $1,000? 10 sales 26 sales 46 sales 1,296 sales

Answer 1

Answer:

26

Step-by-step explanation:

You want to know the value of x that makes y=1000. You can plug the equation in to your calculator or desmos. Look at the table for when y=1000. X is 26.

To check, plug in 26 for x. 26^2 + 20(26) - 196 = 1000.