Mrs. mitchell decided to grade her projects by giving each student 50 points if they turned in a project and then an additional 5 points for each part they got correct. after looking through some of the projects, she decided to give the students 7 points for each correct section. if mrs. mitchell wrote a function to describe the situation, what would change?

Let be the amount of parts the student answered correctly.  Suppose that is a function between and the score of a student's project.  As the student initially receives a fixed points for turning the project in and points for each correct part, the function is initially:



When the students receive points for each correct part, the coefficient of changes, as the amount of points received per correct answer increases.  Thus:

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