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An employee compiled sales data for a company once each month. The scatter plot shows the sales for the company over time. The equation represents the linear model for this data.

y = 0.94x + 12.5 According to the model, what was the company's sales when the employee began collecting data?

A$5000

B $12,500

C $20,000

D $35,000

E $45,000

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Joryszymura00
B12500. basically the y-intercept

Answer:

B $12,500

Step-by-step explanation:

The amount when data collection was first begun is the amount when the independent variable, x, is 0.  This is also the y-intercept.

The equation for the model is in slope-intercept form, y=mx+b, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

In this equation, the value for b is 12.5; this means that the amount at the start of data collection is 12.5(1000), or 12,500.

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