A movie rental store charges a membership fee of $10.00 plus $1.50 per movie rented. What is a possible domain that shows the cost to a member of renting movies?

1 Answer
Aug 2, 2018

If cost =1.5x dollars, where x is an integer then the domain is:

0xmaximum number of simultaneously hired movies allowed per member.

Explanation:

Cost (y) of renting movies depends on how many movies are rented (x). For a member, the $10 membership fee has already been paid, so

y=1.50x dollars.

The domain is the complete set of possible values for x.

It is possible for x to be 0, but not negative, so the lower limit is x=0.

It is possible for a member to hire the maximum number of simultaneously hired movies allowed per member.
(This will vary between stores, so we can't put a fixed value on it.)

The maximum possible value of x is therefore the maximum number of simultaneously hired movies allowed per member.