A baseball club pays a vendor $100 per game for selling bags of peanuts for $4 each. Write a linear function that describes the profit the vendor makes for the baseball club during a game if the vendor sells b bags of peanuts.
A) $p ( b ) = 4 b - 100$.
B) $p ( b ) = 100 b + 4$
C) $p ( b ) = 4 b - 100$
D) $p ( b ) = b + 100$

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The profit function is calculated by taking the revenue from selling peanuts, which is $4 per bag, and subtracting the fixed cost of $100. Thus, the function is $p(b) = 4b - 100$.

A Baseball Club Pays a Vendor $100 Per Game for Selling