SOLUTION: A local water park found that if the price of admission was $16, the attendance was about 2100 customers per day. When the price of admission was dropped to $14, attendance increa

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Question 1052182: A local water park found that if the price of admission was $16, the attendance was about 2100 customers per day. When the price of admission was dropped to $14, attendance increased to about 3000 per day. Write a linear equation for the attendance in terms of the price.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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(16,2100)
(14,3000)
slope is -900/2=-450
use point slope formula
y-2100=-450(x-16)
y-2100=-450x+7200
y=-450x+9300, where x is the cost of admission in dollars.
check with the other point.
3000=-450(14)+9300
3000=-6300+9300, checks.