Question

Can someone check my work please?

Eva played her favorite video game for 14 hours last week. Today, Eva;s parents restricted her to 4 additional hours each week for the next 7 weeks. Creat the function, f(x), that midles Eva's total video game time, and explain what each number in the situation graphically, using complete sentences.

Answer 1

My function: f(x) = 14x + 7 x = 7

4 equals the y-intercept, so you would start there then go up 14 and over 1.

** I don't think my explaination is right **

Answer 2

Restricting video game time? Such injustice haha

Anyway, if she had 14 hours last week, and she gets an additional four hours every week, how many hours does she get this week? ^.^

Answer 3

Oops, I typed the function wrong. My function is... f(x) = 14x + 4 and x = 7

Answer 4

She would get 18 hours total for one week

Answer 5

Okay, great ^^
That's 14 + 4 when the number of weeks is 1.
What about the second week?

Answer 6

She would still get 18 hours. She will get 18 hours total for every week for 7 weeks. So she'll be playing video games for 126 hours over a period of 7 weeks.

Answer 7

No, she only gets four hours each week, right?

Answer 8

I thought that she got 14 hours a week plus an additional 4

Answer 9

Yeah, I thought so too, but that's not really restricting, is it?

Answer 10

Good point... so she'll only get 4 hours for 7 weeks?

Answer 11

After you get this done, you go deal with that git that wrote this problem... doesn't know how to phrase it correctly HAHA

Answer 12

lol

Answer 13

Four hours per week, for the next seven weeks.
So, week 1, she gets 18, which is 14 + 4
.... week 2, she gets 22, right? Because she's only allowed four more hours.

Answer 14

Okay... so the function I wrote is wrong?

Answer 15

Looks like it. Incidentally, 22 is 18 + 8
or... 18 + 4(2)

See the pattern here? ^^

week 1 --> 18 + 4
week 2 --> 18 + 4(2)
week 3 --> ????

Answer 16

26?

Answer 17

Ooops... sorry, I was a too fast there.
Shouldn't be 18, should be 14.
My bad :D

week 1 --> 14 + 4
week 2 --> 14 + 4(2)
week 3 --> 14 + 4(3)

and so on, until week 7, yes? :D

Answer 18

So would the function be f(x) = 7x + 4 where x = 14 then?

Answer 19

No... x is called a variable for a reason... that's because it's the part of the equation that actually changes :D

You should keep everything else.

So in
14 + 4(1)
14 + 4(2)
14 + 4(3)
...
There's only one bit that changes... right?

Answer 20

I'm so confused on what the function would be then because my x variable can't keep changing, that's not how it works. It needs to be a number that continously makes the value increase by a certain number every single time otherwise it's not a function.

Answer 21

*continuously makes the value increase by a certain number...bla bla bla*


to increase is to change, don't you see that? ^.^

Answer 22

This is not helping ._______.

Answer 23

You need to keep an open mind here :D
14 + 4(1)
14 + 4(2)
14 + 4(3)
...obviously, the only thing that changes here is that thing you multiply to 4.

So your function should be
y = 14 + 4x
where x is the number of weeks

Answer 24

So f(x) = 4x + 14 where x = 7

Answer 25

Where x = the number of weeks that has passed -_-
For instance, after the first week, then x = 1
so the number of hours she will have played would be
14 + 4(1) or 18
which is exactly what you got earlier, right?

Answer 26

So the 7 that they put in the problem has nothing to do with function and the graph ._.

Answer 27

It does. Just not something obvious.
Technically, it means that the domain of the function is the set {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}

In English, it means this function only applies for up to x = 7

Which is true. The restriction imposed on the poor bloke was "only" for seven weeks.

So it's only right that we DON'T know how many hours she'll have played after eight weeks... the restriction may have been lifted or worsened by that point haha

Answer 28

Okay... so how am I supposed to graphically explain the function?
f(x) = 4x + 14 so you start the y intercept on 14 and go up 4 and over 1 until you do it seven times?

Answer 29

Yeah... only draw it until x = 7.

Answer 30

I don't have to actually draw the graph, thankfully. Just explain how it would be graphed.

Answer 31

Ahh. Okay then ^.^

Answer 32

Thank you for your help! :)

Answer 33

I'll have you know I'm like... super smart
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just kidding (maybe ;) )

And no problem ^.^

Answer 34

Well then, since you're super smart and all, do you mind helping me with the last problem?

Answer 35

Yes, I very much do mind. But you're going to make me do it anyway, so let's hit it HAHA