Question

Hannah has a bowl containing 54 goldfish crackers. She is eating crackers at a rate of 9 crackers every two minutes. What is the slope of the line?

Answer 1

The line would first have to have a negative slope, since she is consuming the crackers, leading to fewer crackers left in the bowl every minute. Since she is eating 9 crackers every two minutes, this would be a slope of (-9/2) to describe the number left in the bowl.