For the following problem, identify the slope or rate of change and describe it in terms of the problem:
Sally owns a small strawberry patch in her back yard. She estimates she has 1, 600 strawberries at noon before customers arrive to pick their own berries from her yard. At three o'clock that afternoon she knows twenty customers have purchased berries, and she has sold a total of 50 full baskets. She estimates she as only 100 strawberries left in the patch. She then makes several graphs using that data, with time along the x-axis. Given this information select the statement below that is FALSE:

A. Customers are picking and buying about two and a half baskets each.
B. A slope of 20/3 is an estimate of how many customers are in the field per hour.
C. She is selling 1, 600/3 or an estimated 533 strawberries per hour.
D. A slope of 30/1 is an estimate of how many strawberries are in each full basket.

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cierra5sos cierra5sos · Answer 1 · 2017-03-14T00:51:39-04:00

a is true. 50/20=2.5
b is true. 20 people come [every] three hours.
c is false. she isn't selling 1,600 if she has 100 berries left.
so C.

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Anonymous Anonymous · Answer 2 · 2019-03-26T05:13:23-04:00

Answer with explanation:

Number of Strawberries that Sally owns at noon= 1,600 strawberries

At, 3 Noon

Number of customers who has purchased berries = 20

Number of baskets of berries sold = 50 baskets

Number of Strawberries left = 100

Within three hours

→ Number of baskets sold

\(=\frac{50}{20}=2 \frac{1}{2}\)

Since ,within three hours there are 20 customers who has purchased berries .

So, slope of \(\frac{20}{3}\) is an estimate of how many customers are in the field per hour.

→→Total number of strawberry sold =1,600-100=1,500

She is selling , \(\frac{1,500}{3}=500\) strawberries(approximately) per hour.

→→In the starting ,there are 1, 600 strawberries,but at 3'O clock only 100 strawberries are left and 50 baskets of strawberries have been sold.

So, number of Strawberry in each basket

\(\frac{1,500}{50}=30\) .

⇒The False Statement is:

Option C. She is selling 1, 600/3 or an estimated 533 strawberries per hour.