Question

Fishermen in the Finger Lakes Region have been recording the dead fish they encounter while fishing in the region. The Department of Environmental Conservation monitors the pollution index for the Finger Lakes Region. The model for the number of fish deaths "y" for a given pollution index "x" is y=9.607x + 111.958. What is the meaning of the slope and the y-intercept?

Answer 1

it is of form y = mx +c, where m is slope and c is the y-intercept

Answer 2

Slope gives the rate at which the number of fish death increases as population of the fish increases....... And y-intercept gives the number number of deaths of fish when the population of the fish is zero.