The table below shows the cost to Company A, in dollars, of selling cups of coffee per day from a cart.
051050100200
3031.2532.542.555

a) Assuming the function is linear. What is the slope of the line corresponding to the graph of ?
The line has slope =

b) The value for is missing in the table above. In the blank provided in the table, enter the correct value for assuming the cost is a linear function of .

Now consider Company B , whose cost , in dollars, of selling cups of coffee per day from a cart is given in the table below:

0100150175190200
355565707375

c) Which company pays higher fixed costs for rent and labor?


d) Which graph will be steeper, the graph corresponding to Company A's cost C(x) , or the graph corresponding to Company B's cost F(x)


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