SOLUTION: The equation y=20×+100 represents the membership at a local gym where y represents the total number of members and x reresents the number of weeks the gym has been open.what does

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Question 1153194: The equation y=20×+100 represents the membership at a local gym where y represents the total number of members and x reresents the number of weeks the gym has been open.what does the y_intercept represent in this equation?
A. The gym sold 100 memberships prior to opening.
B. The gym sold 200 memberships prior to opening.
C. The gym gets 100 new members per week.
D. The gym gets 20 new members per week.

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
y=20×+100


At 0 weeks, x=0, and this is the y-intercept. That is the number of members just as the gym first opened.

Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The very first phrase of this post is incorrect.

Would I be a manager of this project, I'd fired the person who creates such formulations, in the next day.



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