A small company did an analysis of their pay scale versus years of experience and found that the line of best fit was y = 2035.6x + 36,000. What does the 36,000 mean in context of the problem?

Question

Ferredoxin4 · Answer

When the individual has 0 years of experience, the base salary is 36,000 a paycheck.

chicken25 · Answer

wouldn't it be for every year of experience their salary would go up 36,000

Ferredoxin4 · Answer

No, that's the rate of change. You would say, for every year of experience their salary goes up 2035.6

Ferredoxin4 · Answer

Plug in 1 year. Then 2. You'll see the difference as $2035.6. 36000 is the base pay.

chicken25 · Answer

oh ok
thx