Show questions Your total cost C to skate at Skate Days is a $2 skate rental plus an additional $3.25 for each hour Chat
you skate.
Write a function rule to represent the situation.
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Is this situation continuous or discrete? Explain your reasoning.
Create a sign that Skate Days can display at the counter that tells people how much it will cost
for each hour they skate (include 1-5 hours on your sign)
Skate City has free skate rental but charges $4 for each hour.
Which skating rink would you choose to go to?
Why did you make that choice? Use mathematical reasoning to support your answer. Lo

The cost is a fixed $2, plus $3.25 for any additional hour.

Then if you rent it for x hours, the cost is:

c(x) = $2 + $3.25*x

Is this situation continuous or discrete?

Yes, it is discrete, because x is "the number of hours"

so if you rent it for 1.30 hours, they will say "ok, this is equivalent to two hours".

This means that while the values of x are continuous, the possible costs are:

{$2, $2 + $3.25, $2 + 2*$3.25, }

Which is a discrete set.

Then the sign for 1 to 5 hours will be:

1 hour $2 + $3.25 = $5.25

2 hours $2 + 2*$3.25 = $8.50

3 hours $2 + 3*$3.25 = $11.75

4 hours $2 + 4*$3.25 =  $15

5 hours $2 + 5*$3.25 = $18.25

In the other park the cost is only $4 for each hour (no fixed cost) then the total cost for x hours is:

c(x) = $4*x

Now, which option is better?

If we look at the costs for different numbers of hours for this other equation, we have:

1 hour $4

2 hours 2*$4 = $8

3 hours 3*$4 = $12

4 hours 4*$4 = $16

Then: if you want to skate 2 hours or less, Skate City is cheaper, if you want to skate more than that, kate Days is cheaper.

This happens because the first one has a smaller slope, meaning that is larger at first, but as x grows the price does not grow as much as in Skate City

walter needs to make at least 5 more cookies but no more than 40. 5 ≥ x ≥ 40;

step-by-step explanation:

walter has to make a minimum of 20 cookies. he already has 15 cookies made, so he must make 5 more to meet the minimum.

the maximum amount of cookies he can make is 55. he already has 15, so he has to make no more than 40 more cookies to meet the maximum.