A construction company will be fined for each day it is late completing its current project. The daily fine will be $4000 for the first day and will increase by $1000 each day. Based on its budget, the company can only afford $60,000 in total fines. What is the maximum number of days it can be late?

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A construction company will be fined for each day it is late completing its current project.  The daily fine will be $4000 for the first day and will increase by $1000 each day.  Based on its budget, the company can only afford $60,000 in total fines.  What is the maximum number of days it can be late?

theeric · Answer

Can we make an equation to help us?

theeric · Answer

There can be a few ways to go about this, it seems.

anonymous · Answer

yeahh anything that will help

theeric · Answer

This is a problem you can describe with a graph.|dw:1345342500517:dw| Do you like dealing with graphs? Or would you prefer just math?

Are you required to use the point-slope formula?