Answer:
Her weekly expenses amount to $25.
Detailed reasoning:
Given: Jessica earns commissions for every sale but must cover her own spending costs.
She expresses her income function as , where x represents the number of doors she approaches in a week and E(x) denotes her weekly earnings in dollars.
To determine: What are plausible meanings for the y-intercept in Jessica's earnings function?
Working it out:
x symbolizes the doors knocked per week
E(x) reflects her weekly total earnings in dollars.
Calculating the y-intercept:
Set x = 0
Given that E(x) is the net earning after expenses,
the value 25 corresponds to her weekly expenses.
Since she is responsible for covering costs,
if she makes zero sales, these expenses still apply.
Therefore, the y-intercept realistically represents her $25 weekly expenses.