SOLUTION: An average school bus holds 45 people. SKETCH A GRAPH showing the relationship between the number of students who need bus transportation and the number of buses required. Be sure

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Question 773279: An average school bus holds 45 people. SKETCH A GRAPH showing the relationship between the number of students who need bus transportation and the number of buses required. Be sure to label the axes.

How do i sketch a graph if i don't know how many people need bus transportation?! help please!
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"SKETCH GRAPH" tells us that a line in cartesian coordinates is asked for. Let the y-axis represent the count of busses and the x-axis represent the count of students. You KNOW the slope, positive %2B1%2F45 buses per student (which really just means 1 bus per 45 students). You know that when 0 students, 0 buses. You will include the origin, (0, 0) point.

For practical sense, your coordinates should be positive whole numbers, or you may want to show as a step function; you cannot use a fraction of a bus nor a fraction of a student.