Question

A cab company offers a special discount on fare to senior citizens. The following expression models the average amount a cab driver of the company collects on a particular day, where x represents the number of senior citizens who travel by the company's cabs.

What does the constant term in the above expression represent?
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Answer 1

D. The constant 250 represents the average collection when no seniors ride.

Explanation:

A -- the entire expression represents the driver's pay, not just the constant 250.

B -- collections continue to increase as x goes up, so 250 is the minimum, not the maximum.

C -- x is the number of seniors; 250 is in units of collections (dollars?), not numbers of seniors.

D -- indeed, 250 is the "y-intercept" of the expression, hence the collection when no seniors ride.