Question

Stephanie spent $16 on product and supplies for a lemonade stand. She charged $2 for a cup of lemonade. The graph below can be used to represent Stephanie's profit, y, after selling x number of cups of lemonade.

Answer 1

A. The y-intercept represents the amount of money Stephanie has. She started at -16 because she spent $16.

B. The x-intercept is the amount of cups of lemonade she sold. On the graph, it shows that after 8 cups, she made 16 dollars back. She didn't make any profit sense she started at -16.

C. The slope represents how much she made after so many cups of lemonade were sold. It was after 8 cups of lemonade were sold that she started making a profit.

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