Peter and Catherine are selling cookies for a school fundraiser. They start selling on the same day.

Question

• Peters starts with 300 boxes of cookies and sells them at an average of 15 boxes per day.

• The number of boxes of cookies, y, Catherine has left after x days is represented in the table shown.

X

0

300

1

2

3

y

250

200

150

Which statement is true?

Answer 1

Catherine started with 300 boxes of cookies and sells an average of 50 boxes per day.