Question

Dairy Queen Restaurant charges $4.00 for a Mini-Blizzard (a type of ice cream treat) and $0.50 per additional candy topping that the customer wishes to mix-in. You determine that a linear model is a good way to represent this information. A. What is the rate of change (slope, m, with units): __A___ ____ B. What is the y-intercept: __B___ ____ C. Create a linear model in y = mx + b form for this situation:

Answer 1

Slope = $4.00

y - intercept = $0.50

y = 4x + 0.5

Explanation:

Given :

Cost of Mini blizzard = $4.00

Cost of optional or additional topping = $0.50

A linear model is in the form:

y = mx + b

For this scenario

y = total cost of order

m = slope Coefficient = cost of mini blizzard

x = number of mini blizzards ordered

c = additional cost, cost of candy topping

Hence, rate of change, slope, m = cost of mini blizzard = $4.00

The y - intercept = cost of candy topping = $0.50