Question

The yearbook committee is distributing yearbooks to students by class. Each class has approximately the same number of students. The table shows the number of volunteers who helped to distribute the yearbooks to each of the four classes and the time needed to distribute the yearbooks. What function models the data?

Number of volunteers (n) 2 5 8 11
Time in minutes (t) 220 88 55 40
A. nt = 80
B. nt = 180
C. nt = 222
D. nt = 440

Answer 1

D. nt = 440

Explanation:

The only function choices are of the form ...

nt = constant

You only need to compute nt for the first table value to find the correct answer:

2·220 = 440 . . . . matches selection D