Question

The cost of a pizza at the local pizza shop has a base price of $12 for a cheese pizza, plus $2 for each additional topping? What is the value of the slope?

Answer 1

$2.

Explanation:

This is because the base price is $12, which means the constant is 12. The toppings are the only things you can add to the pizza, so the price of each additional topping is the slope of the pizza's cost. The slope is 2 dollars.

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Answer 2

2

Explanation:

If we were to write a linear equation in slope-intercept form (y = mx + b where m = slope and b = y-intercept) of this situation, it would be y = 2x + 12 where y is the price and x is the number of toppings. This is because the price for every topping is 2x but the base price doesn't change, therefore it's a constant so it would be + 12. In this case, since m = slope, the slope is 2.