Question

Jamal owns a parking garage and is trying to find the relationship between hour of the day and number of cars in the garage. He finds that between 4 am and 10 am he can model this with a linear relationship. The equation for this model is y = 3.96x + 2. About how many cars are entering the garage every hour?

Answer 1

ideas?

Answer 2

slope?

Answer 3

thats correct. though you have to be careful with rounding in this situation. What would you round it to?

Answer 4

no clue

Answer 5

same

Answer 6

well what are the answer choices?

Answer 7

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Answer 8

I would say 3 because you cant have .96th of a car.

Answer 9

i would say four

Answer 10

idk

Answer 11

can you take the test multiple times?

Answer 12

@misty34

Answer 13

only one time after this but idk if i may have accidently reset it already

Answer 14

3.96 is much closer to 4 than it is to 3, which is why estimating the slope as 4 is a more accurate representation of the situation

Answer 15

thanks for clearing that up. I didnt know what was best.