Question

A coal car on a train weighs 30 tons plus 1 ton per cubic yard of coal x that it carries. The total weight of a coal car is: f(x) = x + 30. How will the graph of this function change if the coal car weight is changed to 26 tons?

Answer 1

every point will be 4 tons lower than it was

Explanation:

26 is 4 less than 30, so the new function g(x) is ...

g(x) = f(x) -4

It is shifted down 4 units (tons) from the original function.