Question

Brenda wants to buy a new car and has a budget of $25,000. she has just found a magazine that assigns each car an index for styling and an index for gas mileage. each index runs from 0-10, with 10 representing either the most styling or the best gas mileage. while looking at the list of cars, brenda observes that on average, as the style index rises by one unit, the price of the car increases by $5,000. she also observed that as the gas mileage index rises by one unit, the price of the car increases by $2,500.

Answer 1

For each $5000 she spends on the style the record ascends by one, so the most she can accomplish is an auto with style list of 5. For each $2500 she spends on gas mileage the file ascends by one, so the most she can accomplish is an auto with a gas-mileage file of 10. The slant of her spending line is in this way ½.