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Question 1062156: The basement of a building is 40 feet below ground level. The elevator rises at a rate of 5 feet per second. You enter the elevator in the basement. Write an equation that represents the height yy (in feet) of the elevator after xx seconds.
An equation is y= 5x+(−40).
Graph the equation: y intercept is -40; slope is 5 or rise/run=5/1
Computer is marking me wrong Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Just a guess:
Maybe it's a matter of the computer being
unreasonable. Maybe it has stored: , which is the exact same
thing, but expressed differently.
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