SOLUTION: a local zoo found that if the price of admission was $11, the attendance was about 1950 customers per day. when the price of admission was dropped to $7, attendance increased to ab

Question 768729: a local zoo found that if the price of admission was $11, the attendance was about 1950 customers per day. when the price of admission was dropped to $7, attendance increased to about 2550 per day. write a linear equation for the attendance in terms of the price,p. (A=mp+b)
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One way to do this is make a system of equations. Use a form, mp+b=A.
Two equations from your data pairs are:
and , which is the system:
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Solve the equations for m and b any way you want; substitution, elimination, graphing.
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