Question

6. Enrico is filling his pool. The pool has 3,000 gallons of water in it now. The water hose that Enrico uses puts 500 gallons per hour into the pool. Write an equation for the number of gallons y of water in the pool after x hours. Identify the slope and the y-intercept.

Answer 1

Answer:

y=500x+3000

the Y intercept is 3,000

Step-by-step explanation:

In this equation y represents the total gallons of water in the pool the 500 represents the water that goes into the pool in an hour. X represents the number of hours and 3000 represents the water that was already in there.