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4. The cost of a long-distance telephone call is $.50 for making the call and $.10 per minute. What is the slope? What does it represent?

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This situation can be represented by y=.10x+.50
Therefore the slope is .10
This means that for every minute, the caller is charge .10, and the base rate of .50
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