Interpreting Slope and Y Intercept from a Graph

Which company shows a greater rate of change?

• Water's Edge Rafts

• Ryan's Rafts

What does the slope represent in this situation?

• The sloth runs 1 feet in 3 minutes

• The sloth runs 3 feet in 1 minute

• The sloth runs fast

• The sloth runs 6 feet in 1 minute

Dorothy loves to make cakes.  The following table shows how the number of eggs that she has left changes as she makes cakes.
What is the meaning of the y-intercept?

• She uses 5 eggs for every 2 cakes.

• She started with 47 eggs.

• She uses 47 eggs for every 0 cakes.

• She started with 5 eggs.

What is the meaning of the y-intercept?

• The weight in the bucket increases by 1 pound per pound of sand.

• Before sand is put in the bucket, it weighs 1 pound.

• The starting weight of the sand is 1 pound.

• The weight in the bucket decreases by 1 pound per pound of sand.

The graph shows the candle's height (cm) as it burns (minutes).  What does the slope MEAN?

• The candle burns 1 cm every minute.

• The candle burns 2 cm every 2 minutes.

• The candle burns 2 cm every minute.

• The candle burns 1 cm every 2 minutes.

The graph shows the height (cm) of a candle as it burns, what does the y-intercept mean?

• Candle starts at 9 cm.

• Candle start at 4.5 cm

• Candle starts at 0 cm.

• The candle ends at 5 cm

Which of the following points is a y-intercept?
(-2,3) (4, -2) (0, 5) (-9,0)

• (-9,0)

• (-2,3)

• (4,-2)

• (0,5)

Which of the following is another meaning of y-intercept?

• location

• initial value

• total

• constant rate

What type of association does this graph have?

• positive

• negative

• none

• all of the above

The equation of the trend line
is  y= 1/2x +1. What does the x variable represent? 
   

• The number of laps

• The amount of time in hours

• The amount of time in minutes

• How long it takes to go 0 laps