Question

(04.07) The same amount of trash is dumped into a landfill every day. The function below shows the total number of tons of trash n in the landfill after x days: n = 2000x + 1000 What does the number 1000 represent?

Answer 1

1000 represents the starting amount of trash.
So in the beginning, there were already 1000 lbs of trash in the landfill.

Answer 2

Answer:
1000 represents the amount of trash that was originally present in the landfill before dumping any extra trash.
i.e : It is the amount of trash at day zero

Explanation:
The initial value of a function is defined as the started value of the function independent of any variables present in the function

The given function is:
n = 2000x + 1000
where n is the amount of trash and x is the number of days
To get the initial value, we will set the variable (x) to be equal to zero
Therefore, initially:
n = 2000(0) + 1000 = 1000
This means that the initial value of the trash at day zero is 1000.

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