Question

Suppose the equation y=12+10x models the amount of money in your wallet, where y is the total in dollars and x is the number of weeks from today. If you graphed this equation, determine what the slope represents in this graph

Answer 1

y = 12 + 10x....let me re-arrange this
y = 10x + 12....in y = mx + b form (which is what this is in now), the slope will be in the m position.

y = mx + b
y = 10x + 12
as u can see, the number in the m position is 10. So u have a slope of 10.

The slope would represent how much ur adding to ur wallet each week. U are adding $ 10 dollars for (x) weeks.