Analyzing Functional Relationships Answers

A small dairy farm writes a business plan. It includes a graph showing the estimated amount of feed used each day in thousands of pounds, y, compared to the number of years since the farm began operating, x.

The rate of collection by a solar panel decreased steadily throughout the day due to increasing cloud cover until it reached a constant amount. Later in the day, there were two short periods where the Sun appeared, only for the cloud cover to return.Which graph models the amount of energy collected depending on the time since the cloud cover began?

In order to set a staff schedule, a fast-food restaurant manager looks at the average rate of customers served per minute during a lunch service. The manager notices that the time period starts with a sharp but steady increase, is followed by a period during which the restaurant is constantly serving the maximum number of customers per minute, and then has a slow but steady decline.

Based on an architectural drawing, a roof slopes to a drain along the function represented in the table that defines the edge of slope, where x is the horizontal distance in feet and f(x) is the vertical distance in feet.

An airline company uses the graph of the function below to display the percent above or below the average price per ticket for a specific route, where x is the price the passenger paid and f(x) is the positive percent difference.

An investment group compares returns on an account against the function represented in the table, where x is the time in years and f(x) is the total return on investment.

The graph models the decay of a sample of iodine-125, where x is the time that has passed and y is the amount remaining in the sample in grams.

Consider the graph that represents the path of a golf ball, where x is the distance traveled in feet and f(x) is the height of the ball in yards.

The graph shows the path of light from a wall reflecting off mirrored ceiling tiles, where x is the distance from the wall in feet and y is height in feet along the wall where the light source hangs.

A game requires players to throw a ball into a target. The table below shows values from the function that represents one path of a thrown ball, where x represents the horizontal distance the ball travels in feet and f(x) represents the height of the ball in feet.