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Exercises: Interpreting Slope and Intercept in Context

Most of these need no computation. Set the input to zero to find the starting value, and derive units by division.

Grade 10·22 problems·~35 min·Digital SAT Math·topic·sat-alg-lin2-interp

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Fluency Practice

State what each number means, with its units.

A bakery order satisfies $3m + 2j = 24$ , where $m$ is the number of muffins at 3 dollars each, $j$ is the number of juices at 2 dollars each, and 24 dollars is spent in total. The point $(4, 6)$ lies on the graph of the equation, with $m$ on the horizontal axis. What does this point mean?

Each muffin costs 4 dollars and each juice costs 6 dollars.

An order of 6 muffins and 4 juices costs exactly 24 dollars.

After 4 muffins, the cost rises by 6 dollars for each juice.

An order of 4 muffins and 6 juices costs exactly 24 dollars.