Suppose you are saving money for a new cell phone. At week 0 you have $20 and at week 10 you have $100. If y represents the amount of money you have saved and x represents the number of weeks, find and interpret the slope of the linear equation.
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Responses
one-eighth; $8 is put away each week.
Image with alt text: one-eighth ; $8 is put away each week.
10; $10 is put away each week.
10; $10 is put away each week.
8; $8 is put away each week.
8; $8 is put away each week.
one-tenth; $10 is put away each week.
The correct answer is: one-eighth; $8 is put away each week.
The slope of the linear equation represents the rate at which the amount of money saved is increasing per week. In this case, the slope is one-eighth, which means that $8 is being saved each week.