Question

Previous Year


Number of Bushels

2
4
6
8
Price of Corn (dollars)
12
24
36
48

Answer 1

Part A: Describe in words how you can find the rate of change of a bushel of corn in the current year, and find the value.

Part B: How many dollars more is the price of a bushel of corn in the current year than the price of a bushel of corn in the previous year? Show your work.

Answer 2

rate of change is identified as what equation?

Answer 3

@richgall____

Answer 4

y2 - y1
x2 - x1

Answer 5

yes. what equation is that called though?

Answer 6

slope formula

Answer 7

@RhondaSommer

Answer 8

good so now descibe how you would get slope formula.

Answer 9

pick 2 point on the graph (because the graph is constant and work your way though it; describing each step; not as a point but as a bushel and how much it sold for :)

Answer 10

fill in the blank with the x values and y values

Answer 11

what?

Answer 12

oh; yes exactly