Question

The number of people waiting in a line to buy tickets X minutes after a ticket booth opened is given by the expression 70 minus 5X what does the value 70 represent

Answer 1

The answer is A. the number of people in the line when the ticket booth opened .

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Answer 2

70 - 5x

70 represents the number of people originally in line.

Every minute (x value), the number of people waiting in line decreases by 5.