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Pls somebody solve this I still don’t understand it yet :/ please

Pls somebody solve this I still don’t understand it yet :/ please-example-1
User Fledgling
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Check the picture below.

the assumption being that the y-axis represents the water level more or less and the x-axis represents the minutes elapsed, we're also assuming this rate is constant, so it creates a straight-line on the cartesian plane.

We know that every 3 minutes pass, the level rises by 13 cm, let me reword that, we know that as the "rise" is 13, the "run" is 3, well, slope is rise/run, that simply gives us a slope of 13/3.

Now, we have another point on the line, (9 , y), whatever "y" might be, we know that the slope is y/x or rise/run, so we can say that


\stackrel{\textit{given slope}}{\cfrac{13}{3}}=\stackrel{\textit{equivalent slope}}{\cfrac{y}{9}}\implies 117=3y\implies \cfrac{117}{3}=y\implies 39=y

we know the slope is 13/3 or namely 13 cm every 3 mins, what about for just 1 minute? we can simply get their quotient, 13 ÷ 3 which is about 4.3 cms/min.

Pls somebody solve this I still don’t understand it yet :/ please-example-1
User Hagope
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Answer:

first blank 39, second 9/39 i think, and third 351

Explanation:

i haven't done something like this in a long time so i dont know if its completely correct or correct at all

User Malcoauri
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