Question

A high school basketball team notices that attendance at its games changes at a constant rate based on the number of losses the team has suffered. When the team had lost eight games, 295 people attended the next game. When the team had lost 12 games, 231 people attended the next game.

_______ people attending per loss suffered
Explain what it means in this context.
The change in the (attendance/losses) per game is
______ times as great as the change in the number of (attendance/losses).

Answer 1

The team looses 16 people/audience with each loss.

Explanation:

When the team had lost eight games, 295 people attended the next game.

When the team had lost 12 games, 231 people attended the next game.

Slope =
`(295-231)/(8-12)`

=
`64/-4` = -16

Therefore, the team looses 16 people/audience with each loss.

And the attendance loss is 16 times as great as the number of games lost/losses.