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Question 110813: I have to answer the following question and I am having a hard time. Can you please help?
Find a real-life application of a linear function. State the application, give the equation of the linear function, and state what the x and y in the application represent. Choose at least two values of x to input into your function and find the corresponding y for each. State, in words, what each x and y means in terms of your real-life application.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Things that I know are a straight line function tend to be
very mechanical in nature, and very predictable. An example
is the number of rotations of a wheel on my car and how far
the car goes on the road.
A linear equation has the form y+=+mx+%2B+b m is the slope
b is allowed to be zero if y = 0 when x = 0.
Say I go 1 mile when the wheel rotates 2,500 times.
Then the car goes 2 miles when it rotates 5,000 times
The equation is y+=+2500x where y is miles and x is
nymber of rotations. Y, the vertical axis is always the
thing that DEPENDS on the other. miles travelled DEPEND on
tire rotations.