Cupcake World makes the best cupcakes of all kinds. The graph shows the relationship of cupcakes baked and additional cups of sugar used to bake the cupcakes.

Question

What is the rate of change and what does it represent?

The rate of change is (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 ), and represents (the additional cups of sugar used for every cupcake baked)

Answer 1

The rate of change is 0.5, and it represents the amount of additional cups of sugar used for every cupcake baked. This means that for every cupcake baked, an additional 0.5 cups of sugar are used in the recipe.