Question

You are trying to decide how to most efficiently use your oven. You do not want the oven running at a high temperature when you are not baking, but you also do not want to waste a lot of time waiting for the oven to reach the desired baking temperature. The instruction manual on the industrial oven suggests the oven temperature will increase by 45 degrees Fahrenheit per minute. When the oven is initially turned on, the temperature is 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Write an expression to determine the temperature of the oven after m minutes.

Answer 1

Your formula should add the starting temperature to the amount the temperature has gone up due to the passage of time.