The distance in miles,y, traveled by a car in x hours can be shown by the equation y=55x. What is the slope of the equation? What does the slope represent?

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Lieve · Answer 1 · 2018-11-01T14:27:08+0000

slope =
$(change \ \ y)/(change\ \ x)$ in this case
(y_1-y_0)/(x_1-x_0)

} when y = 55x
(55*1-55*0)/(1-0)

slope = 55, you can chose any

then you will get
(y_(n+1) - y_(n))/(x_(n+1) - x_(n))

. Remeber that there are equations like sqare
x^(2)

where for every x slope is different