Question

A. You are packing candles in boxes. You can fit 15 candles in each box. Write a linear function using function notation that represents the number of candles that you pack into x boxes. B. How many boxes do you need to pack 75 candles? Show your work.Keyword(s): "Write a linear function using function notation." Im only in 8th grade so please no overcomplicated solutions! Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

A.

If we represent the number of candles by y, since each box can fit 15 candles, the function that represents the number of candles and the number of boxes is:

`y=15x`

B.

If we have 75 candles, let's use y = 75, then we can find the number of boxes x:

`\begin{gathered} 75=15x \\ x=(75)/(15) \\ x=5 \end{gathered}`

So we need 5 boxes to pack 75 candles.