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Aidan is saving money to buy a new computer. He made a scatter plot and a linear model for the amount of money he has saved over the past eight weeks. The equation of the line is y = 17.63x + 27.52 . Use the model to predict how much aidan saved over five weeks

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Answer:

Aidan saved 115.67 over five weeks.

Explanation:

After x weeks:

The amount of money saved by Aidan is given by:


y(x) = 17.63x + 27.52

How much aidan saved over five weeks?

This is y when x = 5. So


y(x) = 17.63x + 27.52


y(5) = 17.63*5 + 27.52 = 115.67

Aidan saved 115.67 over five weeks.

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