SOLUTION: You are draining your fish aquarium. After 2 minutes, there are 6 gallons of water in the aquarium. After 5 minutes, the aquarium is empty. Write an equation that represents the vo

Question 839147: You are draining your fish aquarium. After 2 minutes, there are 6 gallons of water in the aquarium. After 5 minutes, the aquarium is empty. Write an equation that represents the volume of y (in gallons) of water in the aquarium after x minutes.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is the same as asking for the equation of the line which contains the points, (2,6) and (5,0).

Slope Intercept Form:

From y=mx+b, use b=y-mx and either point.

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Equation is
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