An employee compiled sales data for a company once each month. The scatter plot below shows the sales (in multiples of $1000) fo

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An employee compiled sales data for a company once each month. The scatter plot below shows the sales (in multiples of $1000) fo

r the company over time (in months). The equation represents the linear model for this data.
y = 0.94x + 12.5

According to the model, what will the company's sales be after 40 months?

Mathematics

2 answers:

mel-nik [20] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-11T19:16:59+03:00

mel-nik [20]3 years ago

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Answer:y = 50,100 to get it right not 50.1

Step-by-step explanation:

stepan [7] · Answer 2 · 2021-12-11T17:58:10+03:00

stepan [7]3 years ago

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Sales aer in multipules of 1000
normally the output is y and input is x

input would be number of months
output would be the sales

so

subsitute 40 for x

y=0.94*(40)+12.5
y=37.6+12.5
y=50.1
this is in thousands
times 1000

$50,100 is the sales after 40 months