Rick buys and sells antiques via the Internet. So far, he has profited $2,502. Based on his profits to date, he developed the fo
llowing linear model where x represents time in months, and y represents his total profits, in dollars. Interpret the slope.y = 2,502 + 417x a. An additional month of buying and selling is associated with an additional $2,919 in profits.
b. An additional month of buying and selling is associated with an additional $2,502 in profits.
c. An additional month of buying and selling is associated with an additional $2,085 in profits.
d. An additional month of buying and selling is associated with an additional $417 in profits.
So we know that Colton cut 1⁄2 of a yard of ribbon into equal pieces to make the decorations so what we can do is take that 1⁄2 and divided by 5 because we know that there are 5 dancers at his year end dance performance.
1⁄2 in a decimal form is 0.5 so 0.5 divided by 5 equals 0.1 or 1/10.
