Question

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Jacob sells homemade skateboard decks for a profit of $27 per deck. He is considering switching to a new type of material that will increase his profit, as expressed by the function y = 32x, where x is the number sold and y is the amount of profit.


How many more dollars will Jacob earn on each skateboard deck if he switches to the new material? Explain how you found your answer.


CAN YOU PLZ SHOW EACH STEP ON HOW YOU GOT THE ANSWER, I WILL GIVE 30 POINTS

Answer 1

5 dollars more

Explanation:

Right now, Jake is using a material that gives him 27 dollars of profit per deck. If he switches to a new material, the profit that he gets is expressed by the function y = 32x. To make this a bit easier to understand, let's switch out y and x for some easier words.

profit = (number sold)*32

This function shows that for each deck with the new material, Jake will get 32 dollars profit. Since the question asks for how many more dollars, we can get the answer by

32 - 27 = 5.

If you still don't understand it, you can think of his old material in a function too:

y = 27x or profit = (number sold) * 27.

Comparing that one with the one above with the new material, we can tell that 32 represents the profit per deck.