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 muffins.
a. The function that relates the sales and the number of muffins can be represented as:
s(m) = 2.25m
b. To make at least $262.50 in sales, you would need to sell at least 116 muffins.
s(116) = 2.25(116) = 261.00 < $262.50
s(117) = 2.25(117) = 263.25 > $262.50
Therefore, you would need to sell at least 117 muffins to make at least $262.50 in sales.