At Misu's Ice Cream Parlor, their famous 4-layer ice cream cake consists of four layers of ice cream alternating with layers of cake. If there are 8 flavors of ice cream, and we count
different cakes based on the order of ice cream layers from top to bottom:
a) how many different cakes can be made if flavors can be repeated?

4096 different cakes can be made if flavors can be repeated.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since at Misu's Ice Cream Parlor, their famous 4-layer ice cream cake consists of four layers of ice cream alternating with layers of cake, if there are 8 flavors of ice cream, and we count different cakes based on the order of ice cream Layers from top to bottom, to determine how many different cakes can be made if flavors can be repeated, the following calculation must be performed:

8 x 8 x 8 x 8 = X

64 x 64 = X

4.096 = X

Therefore, 4096 different cakes can be made if flavors can be repeated.

the required function is .

step-by-step explanation:

from the given table it is noticed that the graph passing through (-3,7), (0,4), (3,1) and (8,-4).

it is a linear function because the value of y is decrease by one as the value of x increase by 1.

the slope of the function is

the slope of the function is -1 and the y-intercept is 4.

the slope intercept form is

where, m is slope and b is y-intercept.

therefore the required function is . the graph of this function is shown below.