Question

Peter played his favorite video game for 10 hours last week. Today, Peter's parents restricted him to 5 hours each week for the next 8 weeks. Create the function, f(x), that models Peter's total video game time, and explain what each number in the situation represents graphically, using complete sentences

Answer 1

@KlOwNlOvE

Answer 2

@Hero

Answer 3

@AravindG

Answer 4

@zzr0ck3r

Answer 5

so no matter what we start with 10, but then we add on 5 for each additional week.

so for 10+5x where x is in weeks, but we want after week 1 to only have a value of 10

and if we let x=1 here we get 15
so we fix this by doing this
y=10+5(x-1)

now notice when we put in x=1 we get 10 and needed, and when we put in x=2 we get 15 as needed and x=3 gives 20....

Answer 6

oh ok thx

Answer 7

wait i dont really get that can you explain a little more please

Answer 8

@zzr0ck3r

Answer 9

which part?

Answer 10

all of it lol

Answer 11

do you see that 10+5x would add 5 to 10 for each x?

Answer 12

oh now i get it thx

Answer 13

but if we would have used 10+5x it would have been wrong because we want it to give a y values of 15 when we let x = 2

10+5(x-1) fixes that.

plug in some numbers for x, play around with it so that you can see how it works.