Practice problem
Function Word Problems
Laurel is a huge fan of hats, she likes all kinds of hats and recently started collecting them. She already owns 3 hats. She plans on buying a hat according to the season every month.

The 3 hats Laurel owns before she started her hat collection
Let be how many months have past since Laurel started collecting hats. Let be how man hats Laurel owns. Can you write a linear function in terms of ?