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You decide to begin selling frozen bananas at the local art festival. Your supplier provides you with a table of costs to give you an idea of what your financial outlay would be. That table is shown below. The data is exactly linear. Items Purchased (n) 10 50 100 500 1000 5000 Cost, C, in Dollars 23.2 116 232 1160 2320 11600 a) Identify the vertical intercept and average rate of change for the data. Vertical Intercept = Average Rate of Change b) Use your results from part a) to write the linear function that represents the data table. Use the indicated variables and proper function notation. C(n) Use your function to determine the cost to purchase 320 frozen bananas. C(320) Write your answer as an Ordered Pair: Complete the following sentence to explain the meaning of the C(320). The cost to purchase frozen bananas is $ Use your function to determine the number of frozen bananas purchased if the cost from the manufacturer is $1,693.60. n when C(n) - 1693.6