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Explain whether or not you think the relationship is linear or not.

The pond in Tom’s backyard holds 50 gallons of water and recedes at a rate of 5 gallons per day.

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It’s nonlinear because the 50 isn’t changing so if you made a graph of this problem (y=5x+50) it would not be a straight line.
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