Using Trend Lines Practice

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Question
You work for a manufacturing company on a production line that manufactures cell phones. You are paid $30 a day plus $0.75 for each phone that you assemble. Predict your wages if you assemble 100 phone in one day, using the equation of the trend line y=0.75x+30
, where x
is the number of phones assembled in one day and y
is the total wages. Write your wages in dollars and cents.(1 point)
Your wages are $
.

1 answer

To find your wages when you assemble 100 phones using the equation \( y = 0.75x + 30 \), we can substitute \( x \) with 100.

\[ y = 0.75(100) + 30 \]

Calculating this:

\[ y = 75 + 30 = 105 \]

So, your wages if you assemble 100 phones in one day is $105.00.