Question

The owner of a retail store is tracking his inventory for an annual report. The graph shows the remaining inventory for a particular item and the number of days that have passed since the stock was replenished. Which type of function best models the relationship between the number of days and the inventory remaining? A. a linear function with negative slopes

Answer 1

Y = -2.8x +69.4

Let y represent units of inventory, and x represent days since the last replenishment. We are given points (x, y) = (3, 61) and (13, 33). The line through these points can be described using the 2-point form of the equation of a line:
... y -y1 = (y2-y1)/(x2 -x1)(x -x1)
Filling in the given point values, we have ...
... y -61 = (33 -61)/(13 -3)(x -3)
Simplifying and adding 61, we get ...
... y = -2.8x +69.4