Question

A new website has 200 hits in the first day, and every day after that it gets 50 more hits. Write an equation to model the number of hits the website gets

Answer 1

y = 50x +150

Explanation:

We will use the slope intercept form

y = mx+b where m is the slope and b is the y intercept

The slope is how much it changes per day

m = 50

The y intercept is how much it starts with at day 0

b = 200

y = 50(x-1)+200 where x is the number of days

Since it starts at day 1, we need to make x be day 0, so we subtract 1

y = 50x -50 +200

y = 50x +150