Question

Kylie lays bricks for a living. To model her daily income, she writes the equation y = 100 + 0.5x, where x represents the number of bricks laid that day. What does the x coefficient represent in this situation?

Answer 1

y = 100 + 0.5x

so x is the number of bricks and y is the total cost

the x coefficient is 0.5 and it is basically saying that she gets 50 cents for every brick laid

the $ 100 is the flat rate fee

Answer 2

Answer: Coefficient of x represents the cost price of each brick.

Explanation:

Since we have given that

Equation of her daily income is given by

`y=100+0.5x`

where, x is the number of bricks laid that day.

Here, Coefficient of x is 0.5.

which represents the cost price of each bricks.

Since x number of bricks is used that day, so the price becomes 0.5x for that day.

Hence, coefficient of x represents the cost price of each brick.