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12.1 Exercise 17

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Use the following information to answer the next two exercises. A specialty cleaning company charges an equipment fee and an hourly labor fee. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of the fee the company charges for each session is y = 50 + 100x.

What is the y-intercept and what is the slope? Interpret them using complete sentences.

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 12.1 Linear Equations, exercise 17

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