Question

The Sugar Sweet company needs to transport sugar to marlet .The graph bellow shows the transporting costs (in dollars) versus the weight of the sugar being tranported (in tons)

Answer 1

Given

To find:

1) How much does the cost increase for each ton of sugar being transported?

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that,

That implies,

The point (0,500) and (1,2000) lies on the line.

Therefore, the equation of the line is,

`\begin{gathered} (y-500)/(2000-500)=(x-0)/(1-0) \\ (y-500)/(1500)=x \\ y=1500x+500\text{ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\lparen1\rparen} \end{gathered}`

Hence,

1) For each ton, the increase in the cost of transporting sugar is $500.

2) And, the slope of the line 1500.