SOLUTION: One year after a celebrity first started posting comments on a website she had 27,000 followers. Three years after this celebrity began posting comments, she had 99,200 followers.

Question 717644: One year after a celebrity first started posting comments on a website she had 27,000 followers. Three years after this celebrity began posting comments, she had 99,200 followers.
(a) Find the slope of the line that passes through the points 1,27000 and 3,99200
(b) Interpret the slope as a rate of change
Thus the slope is...?? Type as integer or simplified fraction
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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Number of followers is plotted on the vertical axis
Years is plotted on the horizontal axis
Slope is ( change in y ) / ( change in x )
slope =
slope =
slope =
The slope is change in the number of followers / year
Each year, there are 36,100 more followers than in
the previous year

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