Question

Kathy is a repair technician for a phone company. Each week, she receives a batch of phones that need repairs. The number of phones that she has left to fix at the end of each day can be estimated with the equation P=108−23d P = 108 − 23 d , where P is the number of phones left and d is the number of days she has worked that week. What is the meaning of the value 108 in this equation?

Answer 1

What 108 represents here is that the total number of phones she has to fix each week is 108 phones

Explanation:

The linear equation is

P = 108-23d

compare this with the general form;

y = mx + c

we have;

P = -23d + 108

We can see that 108 represents the y-intercept in this case

The x-value at the y-intercept is 0

So what this mean is that the number of phones she has to fix each week is 108