Assessment Task:
Basketball Jerseys
The basketball coach at Cashmere High School is planning on buying new jerseys for his team. There is an initial design fee of 500 dollars plus a fee of 110 dollars per jersey. The total cost of n jerseys can be written as the function
C(n)=500+110n
- Find C(16). Explain in words what this solution means.
- Find C(20). Explain in words what this solution means.
- If the coach has a budget of $2,000, how many jerseys can he afford?
- The coach then went to a different brand to check their jersey prices. They told him there is a design fee of $200 and each jersey is an additional $150. Write a new function, F(n), that represents the total price of these jerseys.
An assessment commentary and the solutions for this task can be found in the attached document.