Question

Choose the best answer.

A beekeeper pays $30 to rent a booth at a farmers' market.
She charges $5 for each jar of honey. The graph shows this
situation, which is modeled by the equation y = 5x - 30.
Which of the following is true?
A. The value of x can be negative.
B. The value of y can be negative.
C. The value of x can be fractional.
D. The value of y cannot be zero.
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Answer 1

Answer: The answer is A

Step-by-step explanation: because 5x-30= -150 because I looked it up

Answer 2

B. The value of y can be negative.

Explanation:

The value of y can be negative, which means the beekeeper wasn't able to sell a lot of jars that could compensate the amount he paid for the booth. It also means he didn't have any profit, rather, he incurred a loss.

For example, if the beekeeper sold only 5 jars of honey, the solution will look like this:

Let x be the number of jars of honey the beekeeper sold.

• y = 5x - 30
• y = 5(5) - 30
• y = 25 - 30
• y = -5

This means that the beekeeper has a loss of $5.