A charity is considering the possibility of having a benefit night at two different restaurants. The owner of the local Italian
restaurant has offered to make a donation of $947 and $1 per diner that night. On the other hand, the owner of the Mexican restaurant has said he could contribute $683 plus $5 per diner. Based on the number of diners who have promised to participate in the event, it appears that each restaurant would donate the same total amount. How many diners promised to participate? How much would each restaurant donate?
John reads an equal number of pages of a book every week. The graph below shows the number of pages of the book left to read, y, after x weeks. The equation best models the relationship between x and y is y = −25x + 175