Question

5. Construct Arguments The set of ordered pairs (1, 8.50), (3, 25.50), (5, 42.50), (6,51), (7.59.50) represents the cost of tickets for the school play for different numbers of tickets. The input represents the number of tickets, and the output represents the total cost. Is the cost a function of the number of tickets? Explain.

Answer 1

As ordered pairs (x,y) represents the cost of tickets (y) for different numbers of tickets (x).

Imput: x

Output: y

If a quantity is dependient of another quantity, then the first quantity is function of the second quantity.

As the cost of tickets depend of the number of tikets, the cost of tickets is function of number of tickets