A vendor has learned that, by pricing pretzels at $1.75, sal…

A vendor has learned that, by pricing pretzels at $1.75, sales will reach 84 pretzels per day.  Raising the price to $2.25 will cause the sales to fall to 58 pretzels per day.  Let y be the number of pretzels the vendor sells at x dollars each.  Write a linear equation that models the number of pretzels sold per day when the price is x dollars each. 

Task: In 100 words or less, discuss the following assertion….

Task: In 100 words or less, discuss the following assertion. “Free markets have empirically outperformed planned economies, thus there is no need nor room for government intervention”.    To receive full credit, you must have 2 points that support the assertion and 2 points that do not.