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In Mathematics / High School | 2014-11-05

The price of a community pool membership has a one-time sign-up fee and a monthly fee. The price can be modeled by the function [tex]y = 20x + 50[/tex], where [tex]x[/tex] is the number of months.

Question: What is the slope, and what does it represent?

Asked by johnson3741

Answer (3)

The Slope is 20, it represents that the pool membership will cost $20 every month

Answered by Parkourpeep | 2024-06-10

**Answer: **In the given function the slope (m)=20
It represents the change in price of a community pool membership with respect to the change in number of months. ;

Answered by JeanaShupp | 2024-06-12

The slope of the function y = 20 x + 50 is 20, which indicates that the price of the community pool membership increases by $20 for each month. The y-intercept is 50, representing the one-time sign-up fee. Thus, the total cost varies linearly with the number of months of membership purchased.
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Answered by JeanaShupp | 2024-09-02