Question

Sales $100 10 12 16 18 22 24 Temperature °C (a) How would you characterize the relationship between the money spent on calling fans to the temperature? Explain. (b) The function y=20x+0 is used to model this situation. What is the predicted amount of sales if the temperature is 21 degrees Celsius? Show your work. (c) What does the number 0 in the function mean in the context of this situation? Answers:​

Answer 1

#1

As this is a scatter plot so we have to draw a suitable line then have to find the equation of line inorder to fulfill our requirements.

#2

• y=20x+0

Put temperature as 21(x)

• y=20(21)
• y=420

#3

0 is the y intercept or the initial amount of sales

It's denoting to the fact that there were initially 0 boxes