What is the slope of the line through (–4, 3) and (5, 3)?
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A proportion looks like this:
It means that the quantity a,b,c and d are in the same proportion: the ratio between a and b is the same ratio between c and d.
They are particularly useful in situation when you have an example given, and you want to extrapolate the relationship for another couple.
For example, you can think of the following problem: "Five apples cost 2 dollars. How much will 8 apples cost?"
You can build the proportion
And then solve it for x:
It's slightly ambiguous because the year isn't an even number of weeks, so sometimes that extra day falls on a weekend and sometimes on a weekday. We'll assume a weekend; that makes the numbers come out nice.
Total working days, 52 five day weeks minus 30 days vacation
So his daily rate is
dollars per day
Answer: A
It's closer to $518 when we count the extra day as a weekday.