Answer: Draw a line through the two points (0,2) and (3,3). See the attached image below.
How did I get these two points? The first point comes from the fact that "at the start, the height is 2 inches" meaning that x = 0 hours and y = 2 inches pair up together. This is show as point A. This is the y intercept as this is the location where the blue graph crosses the vertical y axis.
Point B is found by moving 1 unit up from point A and 3 units to the right to land on (3,3). So we have x = 3 hours and y = 3 inches pair up together.
Note: the slope is rise/run = 1/3 helping us determine the unit rate or speed in which the water is rising (ie the water is rising one-third of an inch per hour)
I'm confused... Should there be more pictures? This in incomplete...
It's B) A straight line can be drawn through all the points and the line passes through the point (0,0)
This is because in the problem it says that the points are paired and proportional. For example, say you're given the point (3,6). To make this a proportional relationship, you'd have another point in the third quadrant: (-3,-6). When you draw a line from one of these points to the other, it passes through the origin.
Answer:
For number 3 your answer would be the second function.
I hope this helps a little bit!