A furniture company misprinted a sales ad for a living room set but honors the advertised price. For each customer who purchases the living room set, the company suffers a loss of $125. Write a function to represent the company's total loss. What is the value of the function for an input of 50, and what does it represent?

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A furniture company misprinted a sales ad for a living room set but honors the advertised price. For each customer who purchases  the living room set, the company suffers a loss of $125. Write a function to represent the company's total loss. What is the value of the function for an input of 50, and what does it represent?

anonymous · Answer

We can say that there are x customers.

So,

f (x) = 125x

To get how much money the company loses, we can make x equal to 50.

f (50) = 125(50) = 6250

The company loses $6,250 when 50 customers purchase the furniture.

safia21 · Answer

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