The weekly salary of an hourly employee depends on the number of hours worked.
Employers are required to pay time and a half if an employee works over 40 hours per
week. Suppose an employer refuses to pay time and a half and time cards are recorded in
half–hour increments.
(a) Write a function s(h) for the weekly salary if a person’s hourly pay is $12.25 and the
number of hours worked is h.
(b) What is the domain of this function out of context?
(c) What is the domain of this function in the given context?
(d) Find s(t), s(t – 5), and s(t– 7).
(e) What happens to the salary if the work time decreases by a constant m? Describe using
an equation.
A cylinder has a height that is 3 times as long as the radius.
(a) Write the area of its circular base as a function of its radius.
(b) Write the volume of the cylinder as a function of its radius.
(c) Without simplifying, write the ratio of the area of the circular base and the volume of
the cylinder as a function of the radius.
(d) Simplify the function you wrote in c.
(e) What kind of function is this?
(f) What is its domain out of context?
(g) What is its domain in the given context?
If h(x) = (2x–3)5, find functions f and g such that h(x) =f(g(x)).
If f(x) =1 – 2x+ 2x, find: (a) f(1) and (b) f(–1).