Question

Gabby is an aspiring country artist. She has a record contract that pays her a base rate of $200 a month and an additional $12 for each album sold. Last month she earned a total of $644. Identify the y-intercept in the equation.

Answer 1

From the formula above, you see that your slope would be the $12.

Explanation:

So, from this problem the base rate is the y-intercept because it is fixed. The slope of the is the additional fee because it's changing by the number of albums sold. Below is the equation that should have been created using the slope intercept formula.

220 + 12x = 644

You will need the slope intercept form, y = mx + b

m is the slope

b is the y-intercept

Get it?