Question

Please Help!!

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

I need help

Answer 2

@cj49

Answer 3

@agent0smith

Answer 4

@zepdrix

Answer 5

@JuanitaM do you know how to do this??

Answer 6

Part A - what does the y - intercept represent
think of it as what is Y if X = 0

Answer 7

doesn't it represent where the line intersects the Y axis

Answer 8

Im lost, I have no idea how to do this..

Answer 9

@JuanitaM

Answer 10

First, the conceptual information is what I am trying to get you to understand.
You need to understand what the Y intercept means and how it is reflected on a graph

Answer 11

You are not going to be able to do this problem without understand the conceptual first.