Todd is attempting to predict how much money his furniture company will make based on the amount raw materials the company curre
ntly has at its disposal. The average profit from the sale of 1 piece of furniture can be expressed as 3x + 1 and the average number of pieces of furniture that can be made using the current supply of raw materials can be expressed as 3x - 1. What polynomial function can Todd use to calculate the average profit?
<span>Average profit from the sale of 1 piece of furniture = 3x + 1
Average number of pieces of furniture that can be made using current supply of raw materials = 3x - 1.
Therefore,
Average profit of total furniture = Average profit X Average total of furniture sold
= (3x + 1) X (3x - 1)
= 9x^2 - 1</span>
It just so happens that it's always the same y for each x, but it is only that one y. So this is a function; it's just an extremely boring function! ... So this is a relation, but it is not a function.
