In a bake sale, you recorded the number of muffins sold and the amount of sales in a table as shown.
a. What is a function that relates the sales and the number of muffins?
b. How many muffins would you have to sell to make at least $262.50 in sales?
Number of
muffins (m)
Sales (s)
9
$15.75
15
$26.25
19
$33.25
20
$35.00
a. Write the function
b. To make $262.50 in sales, you would need to sell at least
150 muffins.
a. The function that relates the number of muffins sold (m) to the amount of sales (s) is:
s = 1.75m
b. To make at least $262.50 in sales, you would need to sell at least 150 muffins.
262.50 = 1.75m
m = 150 muffins