Question

Linda is studying the sale of a particular brand of cereals from the year 1993 to 2004. She writes the following function to model the sale of the cereal S(t), in million dollars, after t years:

S(t) = t2 + 5t + 52

Part A: What does the y-intercept of the graph of the function represent? (4 points)

Part B: What is the reasonable domain of the graph of the function? (3 points)

Part C: What is the average rate of change of the sale of the cereal from the first year to the fourth year? Show your work. (3 points)

Answer 1

@ganeshie8

Answer 2

@goformit100

Answer 3

@precal

Answer 4

@thomaster

Answer 5

@strawberrysorbet

Answer 6

@dan815

Answer 7

@nincompoop

Answer 8

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/537ec48ae4b098b1daf48cd1

^think that might help?

Answer 9

This is what I got for parts a and b
A: It would be the starting amount of 52 in millions.
B: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}

Answer 10

I can't figure out c and im not sure if a and b are correct

Answer 11

@strawberrysorbet