Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 1 - Section 1.1 - Four Ways to Represent a Function - 1.1 Exercises - Page 22: 65

Answer

$$ F(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{3} -\$15 x+$600 & \quad 0 \leq x \lt 40 \\ \$0 & \quad 40 \leq x \leq 65 \\ \$15x-$975 & \quad 65 \lt x \leq 100\\ \end{array} \right. $$

Work Step by Step

The first equation of the piecewise function can be derived from $y=-15(x-40)$ by observing the slope of the \$15 / mi/hr fee and the graph being shifted to an x-intercept of 40. Expanded out, it is $y= -15x+600$ for the domain $[0,40)$. The second equation describes the legal driving with no fee (\$0) in the domain $[40,65]$. The last equation is derived from $y=15(x-65)$ with the fee's slope of 15 and the x-intercept shift of 65. The expansion of this is $y=15x-975$ for domain $(65, 100]$
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