Question

An automatics air freshener releases droplets into the air to improve the smell of a living room. At 30 minutes, the canister had 600 drops remaining and after 130 minutes the canister only had 575 drops remaining.
Find the slope you would use in a linear model of drops per minute. 3 points

Construct an equation that models the drops over this time period.

Answer 1

Answer:

The equation is;

y = -1/4x + 607.5

Step-by-step explanation:

Let us have the number of drops as y axis while the number of minutes is x axis

The points to use are;

(30,600) and (130,575)

The slope can be calculated using;

m = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1)

= (575-600)/(130-30) = -25/100 = -1/4

So the equation as we model using the normal equation of a straight line (y = mx + c, m is slope and c is the intercept)

y = -1/4x + c

To get c, we simply substitute one point

Let us use (30,600)

We have

600 = -1/4(30) + c

600 + 7.5 = c

c = 607.5

So the equation is ;

y = -1/4x + 607.5