Question

An onion farmer is hiring workers to help harvest the onions. He knows that the number of days it will take to harvest the onions is a function of the number of workers he hires. Explain the use of the word "function" in this context.

Answer 1

a relationship between a set of inputs

Answer 2

Answer: The word "function" is used to describe that the number of days is dependent on the number of workers.

Number of days = f(number of workers).

Explanation:

We know that the more the number of workers will be involved in the harvesting of onion, the lesser days it will take to complete.

Thus, the number of workers becomes the independent variable, which is the input, and the number of days becomes the dependent variable, which is the output.

Note: I have copied this off from a good lad that goes by "fahimmohammad47", but this answer is from a different source. I did change some stuff to make it have more sense.