Question

Pretend you own a company that sells items over the Internet. You decide that shipping costs will be based on the total weight of a customer's purchase. Write a piecewise function for your shipping charges. Include from three to five weight intervals.

I'm confused as to where to even start with this. Can someone help and walk me through it?

Answer 1

do i get medal and fan?

Answer 2

yeah sure, i just wanna get this done

Answer 3

alright i understand the struggle i hate when people ask for it to sry

Answer 4

lets say p is for person and m is for money
p = m so if i depends on the person the amount of money than figure out p and m and add them together simple enough?

Answer 5

hello?

Answer 6

Okay, so I just determine how much the shipping costs (m) and then use random weights (p) and plug them in?

Answer 7

correct, very smart

Answer 8

medal? 0_o

Answer 9

You're going to want to write one or two expressions using inequailities... Eh...

Eg. x(less or great than)3 = X^2
x(equal or greater than) 3 =(square root; x)

Looking familiar?

Answer 10

@vangoo98

Answer 11

Yeah it is, so hold on, let me work this out on some paper and then can I have one of you check it out and see how it looks?

Answer 12

Mhm.

Answer 13

@rrueda1

Answer 14

f(x) = 5 if x <10
10 if 10 < x < 20
15 if x > 20

Does this make sense? Shipping costs $5 if the item weighs less than 10 lbs, $10 if the item weighs more than 10 lbs but less than 20 lbs, and $15 if the item weighs more than 20 lbs?

Answer 15

That looks good

Answer 16

Alright, thanks so much for the help

Answer 17

@laurenmyers1098 please medal!