jhon has $15 in his account for every week he works as a bag boy he earns $50 write an equation for the ammount of savings in his accountafter x amount of weeks.is this descrete or continuous?

Question

jhon has $15 in his account for every week he works as a bag boy he earns $50 write an equation for the ammount of savings in his accountafter x amount of weeks.is this descrete or continuous?

Answer 1

To write an equation for the amount of savings in Jhon's account after x amount of weeks, we need to consider that Jhon starts with $15 and earns $50 for every week he works as a bag boy.

The equation can be written as:
Savings = 15 + 50x

Here:
- "15" represents the initial amount Jhon has in his account.
- "50x" represents the amount Jhon earns after each week, multiplied by the number of weeks (x).

Now, regarding whether this situation is discrete or continuous, we can determine it by looking at the variable x. In this case, since x represents the number of weeks, it can only take on whole numbers (1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, etc.). Therefore, the situation is discrete.