Chapter 9.1, Problem 29MS

Smells like team spirit. A losing basketball team at your school has recently suffered a large slump in attendance at games. Suppose 1200 students attended the first game, 1150 attended the next game, 1100 attended the game after that, and this pattern continues for several more games. Write a formula that matches this pattern, giving the number of students attending a game, y, in terms of the number of games since the first game, x. So when $x=0,y=1200,\text{and when }x=1,y=1150,$ and so on. If there are 40 games in the basketball season, how many students will attend the last game, according to your formula. Is this a reasonable prediction? Explain.