SOLUTION: Suppose a devastating freeze destroyed roughly 85% of California Central Valley's orange crop. As a result of the freeze, an orange that cost $0.50 before the freeze would cost $1.

Question 990672: Suppose a devastating freeze destroyed roughly 85% of California Central Valley's orange crop. As a result of the freeze, an orange that cost $0.50 before the freeze would cost $1.50 after the freeze. Model the price c of an orange as a linear function of the percentage p of the crop that was destroyed. (Hint: When 0% of the crop was destroyed, the price was $0.50.)
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You want ordered pair points as (percentDamaged,price). Two points you have are (0,0.5) and (85,1.5), which you may assign coordinate variables as (p,c).

Notice that one of these points is the c-axis intercept! Feed everything into slope-intercept form and simplify:

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