Question

Emilio owns a bakery. The number of boxes of cookies he has left on a Monday is represented by the function x + y = 42, where y is the number of boxes of cookies remaining in the bakery and x is the number of hours since he opened the bakery. How many boxes did he have at the start of business on Monday?

Answer 1

At the start of business, x = 0.
y = 42
Therefore, at the start of business, there were 42 cookies remaining in the bakery.