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Today the cost of a gallon of gas is $2.65. Every week for the next 10 weeks, it will increase by $0.05 a gallon. If you wrote a linear equation to model this situation, what would the slope be?
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Today the cost of a gallon of gas is $2.65. Every week for the next 10 weeks, it will increase by $0.05 a gallon. If you wrote a linear equation to model this situation, what would the slope be?

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Y=.05x + 2.65

The .05 represents the increase of the gas price while x represents the number of weeks it has been.

2.65 represents the set gas price which is also the y-intercept

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Answer:0.05

Step-by-step explanation:yt Top daily

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