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Sabrina goes to the store and buys pastries for her holiday party.

The amount of money she has left after paying is modeled by
the function y=75-4x. Which statement represents the
meaning of each part of the function?

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Answer:

The function y = 75 - 4x models the amount of money Sabrina has left after buying pastries.

Explanation:

Each part of the function has a specific meaning:

y: represents the amount of money Sabrina has left, measured in dollars.

75: represents the original amount of money Sabrina had before buying pastries.

-4x: represents the amount of money Sabrina spent on pastries, where x is the number of pastries she bought. The negative sign indicates that this is a subtraction, so the more pastries Sabrina buys, the more money she spends and the less money she has left.

So the function y = 75 - 4x tells us that for each pastry Sabrina buys, the amount of money she has left decreases by 4 dollars. To find the amount of money Sabrina has left after buying x pastries, we can plug in x into the equation and solve for y.

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