A student's saving account has a balance of $4900 on September 1. Each month the balance declines by $350. What is the slope

Respuesta :

-350 $/mo is the slope as given in the problem statement.

Answer:

The slope is [tex]-\frac{350}{month}\[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

This saving account is declining a fixed amount every month, this means that the function that represents this decline is linear.

The other thing we know is that originally (september 1), the account has a balance of $4900, and this is the intercept.

Therefore, for a linear function depending of the variable "x", we can write that

[tex]f(x)= (-\frac{350}{month}x+4900)\[/tex]

where the units were factored. Then the slope is

[tex]-\frac{350}{month}\[/tex]