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"A city official is modeling the demand for bus transportation as a function (,) of two variables:

= price of a daily bus ticket in $, = price of parking per day in a downtown garage in $.
She hypothesizes that demand varies inversely as and directly as 100^2.
Answer the following questions considering that with a daily bus ticket cost of $0.50 and parking price of $6 per day, there are 7,200 bus riders using the bus transportation system.
1. Write the mathematical function describing the demand for bus transportation:
(,) = _"
I'm not sure how to set this up. Also not clear on what "the demand varies inversely as x and directly as 100y^2" means in this context.

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