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Today the coast of a gallon of gas is $2.65. Every week for the next 10 weeks, it will increase by $0.05.a gallon. If you wrote a linear equation to model this situation,what would the slope be?
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Today the coast of a gallon of gas is $2.65. Every week for the next 10 weeks, it will increase by $0.05.a gallon. If you wrote a linear equation to model this situation,what would the slope be?

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We don't need to know how many weeks it kept up
that same rate of increase.

You just told us that it increases by $0.05 a gallon each week.

So the slope of a graph during that period is $0.05 / week.
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