Question

A small company keeps track of its monthly profit in relation to the number of workers they employ. Let x represent the number of employees, and let y represent the monthly profit, where each unit in y represents $1000 in profit. Interpret the meaning of ordered pair (8, 20)

Answer 1

Let the given ordered pair is (8,20.)

`\begin{gathered} x=8 \\ y=20 \end{gathered}`

Given that, the unit of y is 1000 dollars.

Therefore, the monlthly profilt of the company is 20,000 when the number of workers working in the company is 8.