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jeremy has a referee job on the weekends one weekend he earns 140 by working 4 games. another weekend he earns 210 by working six games if he graphed an equation that would represent his total earns based on the number of games worked what would be the slope of the graph

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Essentially what we have here are two points that we can use to find the slope for a line for the amount that Jeremy earns based on the number of games.

The two points that we have are: (4, 140) and (6, 210).

So we know that slope is represented by the equation:


( y_(2) - y_(1) )/( x_(2) - x_(1) )

Then, if we assign the point (4, 140) as the "1" values, and (6, 210) as the "2" values, we can plug those values in to get the slope:


(210-140)/(6-4)= (70)/(2)=35

Therefore, by using this equation, the slope of the line based on Jeremy's pay based on the number of games they referee is 35.
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