Answer:
- B) y = negative 4 x + three
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Find the slope of the line that goes through (0, 8) and (2, 0):</u>
- m = (y₂ - y₁)/(x₂ - x₁)
- m = (0 - 8) / (2 - 0) = -8/2 = -4
Parallel lines have equal slopes.
<u>Looking at the choices we see only one of them has the slope of -4:</u>
Answer:
y = 2.31x + 309.35
Step-by-step explanation:
Whenever you are checking for a best fitting equation you want to check if it has a constant slope. If it does then the relation is linear and super easy.
So, since the t values are increasing by the same amount you want to see if the y values are too. And they are, each population entry is increasing by 2.31, this is the slope.
Also, keep in mind you can caluclate slope with the equation
here x is replaced by t though.
Now, since we know it's linear and we know the slope we can find the equation with the formula y - y1 = m(x - x1) where again, x is replaced by t and m is the slope 2.31
I am just going to use the first point. so x1 = t1 = 0
y - 309.35 = 2.31(x-0)
y = 2.31x + 309.35
Let me know if there was something you didn't understand.
So just add all of them together and you get 405. Then divide by the amount of numbers there is which is 5. So 405 divided by 5. The answer is 81.