Peter played his favorite video game for 10 hours last week. Today, Peter's parents restricted him to 5 additional 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.

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gabylovesyou · Answer

@FibonacciChick666

anonymous · Answer

well do you have any idea what the answer is in the first place?

gabylovesyou · Answer

no idea tbh.

anonymous · Answer

ok write down the basic formula so i know that at least u know the basics

abb0t · Answer

Yes, try to come up with a function.

anonymous · Answer

no it says resricted him to 5 additional hours. so it would be addition would it?

anonymous · Answer

wouldn't*

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

"Peter played his favorite video game for 10 hours last week."
Ok this was last week, does it matter now?
" Today, Peter's parents restricted him to 5 additional hours each week for the next 8 weeks."
Additional 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."

gabylovesyou · Answer

it says additional hours so i thought he was adding hours.. ._.

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

I agree with her interpretation

anonymous · Answer

idk its worded weirdly did u write it right?

gabylovesyou · Answer

yes copy/paste

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

(it is worded absolutely awful)

anonymous · Answer

hmm ok i will go with your interpretation

gabylovesyou · Answer

okay.. so is my function good ?

anonymous · Answer

yes

gabylovesyou · Answer

ok ty so much guys..

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

actually, Do you think it's more like $$y=10+15x$$?

gabylovesyou · Answer

why.. ._.

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

due to the ambiguous wording, there are like three ways to go about it..
Logically, it means what you wrote.  He only gets 5 hours per week after the first week.

Second interpretation is he gets 10 hours the first week and 15 hours the following 8 weeks.

gabylovesyou · Answer

OH WAIT I GET IT.. ok ok yea ur right.. ok ty !!

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

third, he can have it, but he won't have it necessarily, so we could have an inequality on our hands

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

so, issue is they use the word 'restrict' but add hours?  grammatically it doesn't make sense

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

@icedragon50  what do you think?

anonymous · Answer

@FibonacciChick666 yah bad grammar annoys me :/

fibonaccichick666 · Answer

poorly worded questions annoy me too