Question

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In late 1897, Amos Dolbear published an article called “The Cricket as a Thermometer." He had determined that the outside temperature (in Fahrenheit) shared a linear relationship with the number of times the snowy tree cricket would chirp per . If you count the number of cricket chirps per (while sitting inside your warm house), then you can find the temperature outside. In his research, Dolbear concluded that for every extra cricket chirp per second, the temperature was 1/4*F higher. Furthermore, he found that when the number of cricket chirps per minute was 120, the temperature outside was 70*F.

What are the quantities in this scenario?

What in the problem suggests or indicates that the relationship between the temperature and the number of chirps per minute should be linear?

If you graph the relationship, what will be the value of the slope of the graph?

What is the y-intercept?

Answer 1

The equations is t = 1/4n + 40

The slope is 1/4 and the y-intercept is 40

t is the temperature.

n is the number of chirps per minute.

Explanation: