The figure below shows a triangular piece of cloth: What is the length of the portion BC of the cloth?
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The first thing we are going to do for this case is define variables.
We have then:
x: number of days
y: number of pages remaining.
We write the linear equation that models the problem:
The intersection with the vertical axis is:
We evaluate x = 0:
We get the point:
The intersection with the horizontal axis is:
We evaluate y = 0:
We get the point:
Answer:
The graph is:
Graph located in the bottom left.