An employee for an aeronautical corporation had a starting salary of 25,000 dollars/year. After working there for 10 years and not receiving any raises, he decides to seek employment elsewhere. Graph the employee's salary, S as a function of time, T for the time he was employed with this corporation. What is the domain? What is the range?

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An employee for an aeronautical corporation had a starting salary of 25,000 dollars/year. After working there for 10 years and not receiving any raises, he decides to seek employment elsewhere. Graph the employee's salary,  S as a function of time,  T for the time he was employed with this corporation. What is the domain? What is the range?

jamesj · Answer

The answer is the vertical line segment (0,25) to (0,0) and then the horizontal segment (0,0) to (10,0).  Draw it and you'll see what I mean.