Question

At right of this situation predict how the line would change to represent the average Cost of gas in december of 2005 when gas Cost $2.20 per gallon on average

Answer 1

The average cost represents the slope of the line of the graph.
Increasing the slope of the graph increases the steepness of the line.
Therefore, increasing the average cost of gas from $1.50 to $2.20 will increases the steepness of the line. (i.e. the line becomes closer to the vertical line).