Question

MTR

3 MAINTAIN ACCURACY In Exercises 27-30, determine
whether the statement uses the word function in a way
that is mathematically correct. Explain your reasoning.
27. The selling price of an item is a function of the cost of
making the item.
28. The sales tax on a purchased item in a given state is a
function of the selling price.
29. A function pairs each student in your school with a
homeroom teacher.
30. A function pairs each chaperone on a school trip
with 10 students.



Please just do 28 and 30

Answer 1

28. Correctly used

30. Incorrectly used

Explanation:

You want to know if the word "function" is correctly used in the following cases:

28. The sales tax on a purchased item in a given state is a function of the selling price.

30. A function pairs each chaperone on a school trip with 10 students.

28. Sales tax

There is exactly one value of sales tax associated with any given selling price. This means the ordered pair (selling price, sales tax) will be unique for any given selling price. Hence, the relation between selling price and sales tax is a function. The word function is used correctly in describing this relation.

29. Chaperones

There are 10 different students associated with any given chaperone. This means there will be multiple (chaperone, student) ordered pairs for any given chaperone: (c1, s1), (c1, s2), ..., (c1, s10), (c2, s11), (c2, s12), ..., (c2, s20), .... The relation between chaperones and students is not a function. The word function is used incorrectly in describing this relation.