Question

Allison is saving money to buy a new phone that costs $600 by selling her graphic designs. She is using an app to manage her sales, but it keeps a fraction of each sale. Her net pay is modeled by the function P(x) = x2 + 18x – 160, where x represents the number of sales. How many sales does Allison to make to earn $600?

Answer 1

20

Explanation:

x^2+18x-160

If you put this into your calculator or desmos, you will get a parabola. You want to know the value of x when y=600. You can look at the table for the graph or scan to where y = 600. The value of x is 20 at that point.

To check you can plug 20 in for x. When you do that, y = 600.