Question

Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month. At the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation S=300-15x , where S is the number of pair of shoes Kelly still needs to sell and x is the number of days she has worked that month. What is the meaning of the number 300 in this equation

Answer 1

Answer: The initial number of shoes in the store is 300.

Explanation:

Given : Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month.

At the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation

`S=300-15x` , where S = Number of pair of shoes Kelly still needs to sell.

x = Number of days she has worked that month.

When x= 0 , we get S= 300

i.e. When she started working in that month , she has 300 pairs of shoes to sell.

Therefore , Number 300 means that the initial number of shoes in the store is 300