Chapter 3: Q. 3.39 (page 268)
Stella has a home business selling gourmet pizzas. The equation models the relation between her weekly cost, C, in dollars and the number of pizzas, p, that she sells.
鈸 Find Stella鈥檚 cost for a week when she sells no pizzas.
鈸 Find the cost for a week when she sells 15 pizzas.
鈸 Interpret the slope and C-intercept of the equation.
鈸 Graph the equation.
Short Answer
鈸$25
鈸$85
鈸扵he slope, 4, means that the weekly cost, C, increases by $4 when the number of pizzas sold, p, increases by 1. The C-intercept means that when the number of pizzas sold is 0, the weekly cost is $25.
鈸 Graph of the equation

