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12.1 Exercise 19

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Use the following information to answer the next three questions. Due to erosion, a river shoreline is losing several thousand pounds of soil each year. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of soil lost per year is y = 12,000x.

How many pounds of soil does the shoreline lose in a year?

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 12.1 Linear Equations, exercise 19

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