Question

A company determined it could use equation y = -25/3x + 250,000 to predict its total number of customers, y, based on the number of days x. What is the meaning of the slop of this function

Answer 1

The slope is meant to show the relationship between the x(number of days) variable and the y (total number of customers) variable.

When the number is positive, it means that both x and y move in the same direction which means that as x increases, so does y.

When this number is negative, it means that hen x increases, y decreases.

In this scenario therefore, as the number of days increases, the total number of customers decreases.