Question

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Every Saturday, Maria and Alicia take a bag of aluminum cans they collected during the week to the recycling center. The points graphed below show the amounts of money Maria and Alicia received for their last four bags of cans.

What rate did the recycling center pay for a pound of aluminum cans?
Group of answer choices

$0.49

$0.45

$2.22

$3.25

Answer 1

The graph shows a constant slope/line. So its easier if you use your finger and go all the way back to 1 pound. You'll find your answer there, any ideas?

Answer 2

B?

Answer 3

Oh shoot, I didn't notice it didn't show 1 pound on the graph... UhHHH

Well, another way to be sure is to grab a pencil and paper, draw a line to represent 1 pound, across your screen.
By that I mean put the paper on your screen and make the remaining lines, = spaced ofc

Answer 4

All the way back to 1 and you'll find that answer

Answer 5

okay like, find the slope?

Answer 6

No need to find the slope, it's constant, and the question isn't telling you to find the slope. So, you can estimate the best possible answer from the choices shown. It's not D or C because they don't go back far enough, and I made the mistake of not looking at the T-axis

Answer 7

The only possible answers are either A or B

Answer 8

okay

Answer 9

Tell me when you have your answer and I'll see if it's right >Insert shrug here<

Answer 10

0.45

Answer 11

Yeah, that seems about right. I hope it's right, 0.49 is so close to 45 XD Good luck mate

Answer 12

thank you