Question

Hazel has already written 2 pages, and she expects to write 2 pages for every additional

hour spent writing. After spending 24 hours writing this week, how many pages will Hazel
have written in total?

Answer 1

50 pages

Explanation:

We can set up an equation for this in slope-intercept form.

The slope is 2 due to her expecting to write 2 pages an hour.

The y-intercept is 2 because she has already written 2 pages.

The full equation is y = 2x + 2.

We can plug 24 in for x to get y = 48 + 2, which simplifies to y = 50.