This is just my guess but I want to say no they are not similar because the first 10 + 5 = 15
8 + 5 = 13 not 12
To make it similar, 8 needs to be 7. This is ONLY my guess, I’m not 100% confident in my answer
At the moment it’s in standard form. We can easily turn this into slope int form (y= mx + b) tho
3y= -18x -18
y= -6x - 6
The linear function that calculates the expected distance from the sun of the Voyager-2 spacecraft in x years after 1990 is given by:
y = 3.3x + 30.6.
<h3>What is a linear function?</h3>
A linear function is modeled by:
y = mx + b
In which:
- m is the slope, which is the rate of change, that is, by how much y changes when x changes by 1.
- b is the y-intercept, which is the value of y when x = 0, and can also be interpreted as the initial value of the function.
In this problem, we have that the distance increases 33 AU each 10 years, hence the slope is given by:
m = 33/10 = 3.3.
Hence:
y = 3.3x + b.
When x = 28, y = 123, hence we use it to find b as follows:
123 = 3.3(28) + b
b = 30.6.
Hence equation to calculate the expected distance from the sun of the Voyager-2 spacecraft in x years after 1990 is given by:
y = 3.3x + 30.6.
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