An employee compiled sales data for a company once each month. The scatter plot below shows the sales (in multiples of $1000) for the company over time (in months). The equation represents the linear model for this data.

y = 0.94x + 12.5

According to the model, what will the company's sales be after 40 months?

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Shea Stephens

Mathematics

24 May, 21:57

An employee compiled sales data for a company once each month. The scatter plot below shows the sales (in multiples of $1000) for the company over time (in months). The equation represents the linear model for this data.

y = 0.94x + 12.5

According to the model, what will the company's sales be after 40 months?

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Ayla Duffy · Answer 1

Sales aer in multipules of 1000

normally the output is y and input is x

input would be number of months

output would be the sales

so

subsitute 40 for x

y=0.94 * (40) + 12.5

y=37.6+12.5

y=50.1

this is in thousands

times 1000

$50,100 is the sales after 40 months