Answer:
Find the slope of the line that passes through the points given in the table. The slope is 5.
Use one of the given points to find the y-intercept. Substitute values for x, y, and m into the equation y = mx + b and solve for b. The y-intercept is 1.
Write the formula as a function of n in slope-intercept form. The function is
f(n) = 5n+1 for n in the set of natural numbers.
So, let's look at the problem once again.
8%, or 8/100 of the bag were green jelly beans.
Let's see what we can do to find out a number of other jelly beans, not including the green ones.
We know that 92% of jelly-beans are not green.
92% is 11.5 times more than 8%
(92/8)
24 (or 8%) times 11.5 = 276
276 - number of jelly beans that are not green.
276 plus 24 = 300.
Answer: 300 jelly beans were in one bag.
