According to my research the formula for the <u>Rate of Change</u> is the following
In this situation we can use y for lbs and x for people. Since all the information was given to us in the question we can just plug the values into the formula above and solve for the rate of change.
So we can see that the rate of change is of 0.25 lbs / person
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