An employer provides two payment options for employees.
Option A: Receive $200 the first week. Receive an additional $50 for each of the following weeks.
Option B: Receive $200 the first week. Receive an additional 10% for each of the following weeks.
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 2 points)
1. Complete the tables to show how much money would be received for both payment options, each week, for 6 weeks.
Option A:
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6
Amount Paid
Option B:
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6
Amount Paid

(Score for Question 2: ___ of 6 points)
2. Referring to the tables in #1, suppose you are a new employee. You notice that each payment option describes a sequence and decide to use rules to help determine which option to take.
(a) Determine the rule (or formula) for each sequence. Show your work.

(b) Your friend trusts your tables in #1, but wonders if you wrote the rules correctly. Show two calculations using week 6 to convince your friend that both your rules work.


(Score for Question 3: ___ of 3 points)
3. Consider the formulas you wrote in Problem 2.
(a) Your friend says that because the rules are functions, they can be graphed and must have y-intercepts. Do you agree or disagree with your friend? Explain your thinking.

(b) Your friend uses your rules to determine the outputs when the inputs are 18.5. Explain why she cannot use 18.5, and describe types for numbers that CAN be used for inputs?


(Score for Question 4: ___ of 4 points)
4. Use your formulas from #2 to calculate how much each option makes during week 20. (Show your work)