Question

Jake is buying a piece of recycled art from Luna.Ge stared by giving her 50 and promised to pay her 5 a week until he pay the total price.What equation show the reationship between the total amount paid t and the number of weeks W Jake will pay Luna

Answer 1

t(W)=5W+50

Explanation:

t(W)=5W+50

Answer 2

`f(x)= 5x+50`

Explanation:

When the problem says that Jake started by giving her $50, this means that initial money is a constant, it won't change, it already happened, it's invariable. So, that initial money is a constant term, a number without the variable.

Then, the problem specific that Jake will pay her $5 per week, but we don't know how many weeks are, so the unknown quantity, the variable x must represent "weeks", and this "weeks" must be multiplied by 5, because each of them represents $5 payed.

Therefore, the final equation is gonna be a sum of these two terms, the constant term and the variable term:

`f(x)= 5x+50`

Where
`f(x)` represents the total amount money payed by Jake after a x number of weeks.