Question

Aidan is saving money to buy a new computer . He made a scatter plot and a linear model for the amount of money he has saved over the past eight weeks. The equation of the line is y=17.63x+27.52. Use the model to predict how much Aidan saved after 5 weeks

Answer 1

$115.67

Explanation:

got it correct

Answer 2

If the scatter plot was made with weekly data (x axis in "weeks")

y= 17.63(5)+27.52 = 115.67 (money saved)

If the scatter plot was made with daily data (x axis in "days")

y= 17.63(5*7)+27.52 = 644.57 (money saved)

Explanation:

We just need to apply the equation found by Adan with his model and substitute depending on wether his plot was on days or weeks.