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TELL ME THE CORRECT EQUATION!!

The cost of renting a sailboat at a lake is $80 per hour plus $14 for life jackets. Write an equation in slope-intercept form that can be used to calculate the total amount you would pay for using this sailboat. THE EQUATION THAT REPRESENTS THIS SITUATION IS ________

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Answer:

y=80x+14

Explanation:

Slope-intercept equation is:

y=mx+b where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept

Let x be the amount of time (in hours) that someone used the sailboat, and let y be the total amount of money the sailboat and the life jacket costs:

y=80x+14

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