Question

Pauline's cell phone bill is $39.99 a month for a fixed amount of minutes. For any minute she goes over the allowed amount, she is charged $0.50 per minute. The equation y=39.99+0.50x represents her phone bill, where y is the total bill and x is the number of minutes.

Which variable is the independent variable?



A.x


B.y


C.There is no relationship between the variables.

Answer 1

The value of y depends on the value chosen for x...so the INDEPENDENT variable would be 'x'

Answer 2

So it would be A?

Answer 3

a?

Answer 4

Correct

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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