Question

You are working on a costume to make for Halloween, and you need customized ribbon in order to finish it. You already have 10 feet of this ribbon, and a machine at the craft store can make 5 feet of customized ribbon in a minute. If you represent the situation above with a linear equation in slope-intercept form, what is the SLOPE of the line?

A) 5
B) 10
C) 2
D) 0.2

Answer 1

The slope of the line in the given situation is 5.

Step-by-step explanation:

To represent the situation of needing customized ribbon for a Halloween costume, you can use the equation y = 5x + 10, where y represents the total feet of ribbon and x represents the number of minutes. The slope of the line in slope-intercept form is the coefficient of x, which in this case is 5.

Therefore, the slope of the line is 5.