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The table shows the cost of buying pencils at the school bookstore. If the data were graphed

as c= mp + b, where p is the number of pencils and cis the cost, what would m, the slope of
the line, represent?

User Erna
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Answer:

The Cost Of The Pencil

Explanation:

User BootMaker
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Answer:

m = cost of one pencil

Explanation:

The total cost of the pencil purchase (c) is the number of pencils (p) multiplied by their cost (m).

m represents the cost of one pencil

User Thomas Crowley
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