Question

The amount of calories you consume after eating x pieces of candy is represented by the function. y=135x. Find the domain of the function and determine whether it is discrete or continuous.

Answer 1

The function is:

y = 150*x

where y is the number of calories consumed, and x is the number of pieces of candy consumed.

Now, the domain of a function is the possible values of x that you can input in the function.

For this particular case you can have:

x = 0 (no pieces candy)

x = 1 (one piece of candy)

x = 2 (two pieces of candy)

Notice that x can be only whole numbers because, in principle, you can't eat a fraction of a piece of candy.

So we only use x = whole numbers.

Then the domain of the function is equal to all the natural numbers plus the zero, or:

D = {x ∈ N ∪ {0}}

"x belongs to the union between the set of the natural numbers and the zero"

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