A small company did an analysis of their pay scale versus years of experience and found that the line of best fit was y = 2035.6x + 36,000. What does the 36,000 mean in context of the problem?

A) That the lowest salary anyone could earn was 36,000.

B) That if they had 0 years of experience their salary would be 36,000.

C) That currently the lowest salary of any employee in the company was 36,000.

D) That for every year of experience they had their salary would go up 36,000.

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Salvatore Avila

Mathematics

26 November, 08:33

A small company did an analysis of their pay scale versus years of experience and found that the line of best fit was y = 2035.6x + 36,000. What does the 36,000 mean in context of the problem?

A) That the lowest salary anyone could earn was 36,000.

B) That if they had 0 years of experience their salary would be 36,000.

C) That currently the lowest salary of any employee in the company was 36,000.

D) That for every year of experience they had their salary would go up 36,000.

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Julien English · Answer 1

B) That if they had 0 years of experience their salary would be 36,000.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because 36,000 is the constant in the equation, which is always the value when the variable (in this case years experience) is equal to 0.