<PRE><B>Question 672374</B>
soup and salad inc.is catering a winter lunch on. according to the company 8.5 cans of soup can feed 20 people. what is the linear equation that represents this situation? 
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Let # of people be the dependent variable.
Let # of cans be the independent variable.
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slope is the increase or decrease in number of people when # of cans is increasesed by one.
slope = 20/8.5 
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intercept is the # of cans when # of people is zero: (0,0)
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Equation:
y = (20/8.5)x
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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