Question

A bike rental shop is keeping track of its monthly rentals in the fall. The table shows the number of rentals for the first, second, and third months. Analyze the correlation and decide which answer shows a reasonable prediction for the fourth month.

Answer 1

Find the difference between the 1st and 2nd month.
Then the 2nd and 3rd

Answer 2

102 and 96

Answer 3

Yes.
Do you have any answer choices for the 4th month?

Answer 4

Wait would it be 88?

Answer 5

Yes. That is what I got too

Answer 6

okay hold on im confused now.

Answer 7

these are the answer choices and 88 is not one of them. what did I do wrong?

Answer 8

You did nothing wrong.
I guess they are just estimating.

So which of your answer choices is closest to 102 or 96

Answer 9

101. thats weird lol. thanks for the help!

Answer 10

Yes. It's just estimating.
And you're welcome!

Answer 11

the answer was 75? haha

Answer 12

Oops sorry about that

Answer 13

Forgot about the question to the problem.

But yes 75 was correct. Because you keep decreasing by 100 each month