An industrial oven is used in a bakery. The temperature of the oven chamber, , in degrees Fahrenheit (), minutes after the heating element is turned on is modeled by the linear equation:
After a system upgrade, the starting temperature of the oven is warmer, and the rate at which the oven heats up is faster. During a test of the upgraded oven, the heating element is turned on for minutes, after which the oven is turned off and cools down at a constant rate of per minute. If the cooling process is also linear, which of the following functions models the temperature of the upgraded oven, , in degrees Fahrenheit, minutes after it is turned off?
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The function models the temperature of the upgraded oven, , in degrees Fahrenheit, minutes after it is turned off.
To find the temperature model during the cooling phase, we must first determine the state of the oven when the cooling begins. The upgraded oven has a starting temperature of and a heating rate of per minute. After minutes of heating, the temperature reaches . When the oven is turned off at minutes, its temperature is , which serves as the y-intercept of the cooling function. Since the temperature decreases at a constant rate of per minute, the rate of change (slope) is . Therefore, the linear model is the function showing a rate of change of and a starting value of .
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Interpreting and modifying parameters of linear models in multi-stage contextual scenarios.
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Instead of writing the heating function explicitly, you can calculate the total temperature increase directly: the temperature rises by per minute for minutes, which is a total increase of . Adding this increase to the upgraded starting temperature of gives the peak temperature of . Since the cooling phase is linear with a slope of and a y-intercept of , the function is immediately determined.
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