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Jake is buying a piece of recycled art from Luna. He started by giving her $50 and promised to pay her $5 a week until he pays the total price. What equation shows the relationship between the total amount paid(t) and the number of weeks (w) jake will take to pay Luna.

Jake is buying a piece of recycled art from Luna. He started by giving her $50 and-example-1
User Petr Adam
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Answer:

T=5w+50

Explanation:

5 dollars a week is the rate of increase. (slope/x-value) and 50 is the starting amount (y intercept on a graph). These answers are in linear equation form of y=a+b (or in this case, t = w+y intercept.) o a graph it looks like this:

Jake is buying a piece of recycled art from Luna. He started by giving her $50 and-example-1
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