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D) Why should it cost $50 to serve zero cups of coffee? (b) Plot P against x. For what x-values is the graph of P below the x-axis? Above the x-axis? Interpret your results. (c) Interpret the slope and both intercepts of your graph in practical terms. 21. Owners of an inactive quarry in Australia have decided to resume production. They estimate that it will cost them $1000 per month to maintain and insure their equipment and that monthly salaries will be $3000. It costs $80 to mine a ton of rocks.

14 World 23. Make two tables, one comparing the radius of a circle to its area, the other comparing the radius of a circle to its circumference. Repeat parts (a), (b), and (c) from Problem 22, this time comparing radius with circumference, and radius with area. 24. Sri Lanka is an island that experienced approximately linear population growth from 1950 to 2000. 27 gives the population of these two countries, in millions. Which of these two countries is A and which is B? Explain. (b) What is the approximate rate of change of the linear function?

What do the y-intercepts of the functions in Example 2 say about oxygen consumption? Often the y-intercept of a function is a starting value. e. x = 0). Since a person running on a treadmill must have a pulse, in this case it makes no sense to interpret the y-intercept this way. The formula for oxygen consumption is useful only for realistic values of the pulse. 3. Consider the following example. Example 3 We have $24 to spend on soda and chips for a party. A six-pack of soda costs $3 and a bag of chips costs $2.

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