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Hannah has a bowl containing 54 goldfish crackers. She is eating crackers at a rate of 9 crackers every two minutes. What is the slope of the line?

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The line would first have to have a negative slope, since she is consuming the crackers, leading to fewer crackers left in the bowl every minute. Since she is eating 9 crackers every two minutes, this would be a slope of (-9/2) to describe the number left in the bowl.
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