Mary the Queen College Pampanga
OME Lec.3
Asynchronous Activity M1
Name: _________________________________________ Date: ______________
Section: _______________________________________
Instruction: Answer each of the following honestly and independently.
1. A credit card company estimates that the average cardholder owed $7,853 in the year 2000 and $9,127 in 2005.
Suppose average cardholder debt D grows at a constant rate.
A. Express D as a linear function of time t, where t is the number of years after 2000.
B. Use the function in part A to predict the average cardholder debt in the year 2010.
C. Approximately when will the average cardholder debt be double the amount in the year 2000?
2. A car rental agency charges $75 per day plus 70 cents per mile.
A. Express the cost of renting a car from this agency for 1 day as a function of the number of miles driven.
B. How much does it cost to rent a car for 1-day trip of 50 miles?
C. The agency also offers a rental for a flat fee of $125 per day. How many miles must you drive on a 1-day trip
for this to be the better deal?
Supply and Demand
3. At a price of $2.28 per barrel, the supply of petroleum is 7,500 million barrels and the demand is 7,900 million
barrels. At a price of $2.37 per barrel, the supply of petroleum is 7,900 million barrels and the demand is 7,800
million barrel.
A. Find a price-supply and price-demand equation of the form p=mx+b .
B. Find the equilibrium point and graph the price-demand and price-supply equation.
(The grid lines shown below is just an option, you may use any alternative grid for your
preference)
p(x)
“The only failure is giving up”
Sir Anre