Answer:
In order to find the slope, you need to find the difference in the x values and the difference in the y values. To do this, you write out y2-y1/x2-x1, insert your x and y values, and get your answer. Then, you find your y-intercept (where the x value is 0).
This is a linear equation or y=mx+c. Where y is the number of mosquitos at a particular month and x is the number of months. We know the initial population of the mosquitoes is c=20. They population doubles every month so this is the gradient, m=2. Therefore the equation for the growth of the mosquito population is:
y = 2x + 20.
So after x= 10 months the mosquito population will be,
y=2(10)+20= 40.
There will be 40 mosquitoes after ten months.
12,000 pounds, 1 ton = 2000 pounds
