Question

Armando's carpet has an area of 220 square feet. He hires the Carpet Pro carpet cleaning service, which is able to clean 9 square feet of his carpet every minute. Therefore, in the first minute, CarpetPro is able to clean 9 square feet of Armando's carpet (leaving 211 square feet remaining to be cleaned). In the second minute, the cleaner is again able to clean 9 square feet of carpet (leaving 202 square feet to be cleaned), etc. Which of the following functions expresses the number of square feet that still remain to be cleaned after t minutes from the time that the carpet cleaner began cleaning this carpet.

a. A(t) = 220 - 9
b. A(t) = 220 - 0.1
c. A(t) = 220(0.1)
d. A(t) = 220(0.96)
e. A(t) 220 - 0.96

Answer 1

The answer is A

Explanation:

The answer needs to be in slope-intercept form or y=mx+b because the amount of carpet being cleaned every minute is a constant decrease of 9 square feet.

So our b value (or how much carpet cleaned at 0 minutes) is 220

And our m value (or slope or how much carpet is being cleaned every minute) is 9

So if we plug the variables with the tangible numbers we get A(t) = -9x+220 or A(t) = 220-9x.

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