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The table below shows the number of feet of cable needed for an elevator in buildings with different numbers of floors.



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Which statement explains the meaning of the slope of the equation that models this data?


Each floor requires 62 feet of cable.


The length of cable needed increases by 22 feet for each additional floor.


The length of cable needed increases by 40 feet for each additional floor.


Each elevator needs 22 feet of cable in addition to the length of cable needed for each floor.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The length of cable needed increases by 22 feet for each additional floor.

Explanation: the slope tells how much the cable length changes when the number of floors increases by one, so a slope of 22 means +22 feet per extra floor.