Question

Gloria has a lunch account in the school cafeteria. The balance, f(x), in her account can be represented by the function f(x) = –1.50x + 40, where x is the number of meals purchased. Suppose –1.50 changed to –2.75. What does this mean in the context of the problem?

Answer 1

F(x) = -1.50x + 40.....basically, this is saying that Gloria has  40 bucks in her lunch account and each meal costs her 1.50.

By changing the -1.50 to -2.75 means she is paying more for her meals...the cost of a meal went up from 1.50 to 2.75.