Pizza Cost Marcello's Pizza charges a base price of $16 for a large pizza plus $1.50 for each additional topping. (a) Find a function f that models the price of a pizza with n toppings. (b) Find the inverse of the function f. What does f represent? (c) If a pizza costs $25, how many toppings does it have?

Pizza Cost Marcello's Pizza charges a base price of $16 for a large pizza plus $1.50 for each additional topping. (a) Find a function f that models the price of a pizza with n toppings. (b) Find the inverse of the function f. What does f represent? (c) If a pizza costs $25, how many toppings does it have?

College Algebra

7th Edition

ISBN:9781305115545

Author:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Publisher:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Chapter2: Functions

Section2.8: one-to-one Functions And Their Inverses

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