Homework 5: Connecting Equations to Graphs (Alg1.2.11)
What is the slope of the graph of ?
What is the -intercept of each equation?
Han wanted to find the intercepts of the graph of the equation . He decided to put the equation in slope-intercept form first. Here is his work:
What are the - and -intercepts of the line? Explain or show your reasoning.
Which graph represents the equation ? Explain how you know.
A
B
C
The graph shows how much money Priya has in her savings account weeks after she started saving on a regular basis.
How much money does Priya have in the account after 10 weeks?
How long did it take her to save $200?
How much money did Priya have in her savings account when she started to save regularly?
Write an equation to represent the dollar amount in her savings account and the number of weeks of saving. Be sure to specify what each variable represents.
A school sells adult tickets and student tickets for a play. It collects $1,400 in total.
The graph shows the possible combinations of the number of adult tickets sold and the number of student tickets sold.
What does the vertical intercept tell us in this situation?