Question

The cost of hosting a dinner in a particular restaurant is given by y = 18.5x + 250, where x is the number of people at the dinner and y is dollars. What is the slope of this function? What does it mean in the context of the problem?

Answer 1

Slope: 18.5

This means that for every person, it will cost $18.50 for the party.

Explanation:

The slope is simply the number by x