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Final Math Project Unit 8
Final Math Project Unit 8
Final Math Project Unit 8
How Many Months Will It Take For Olivia Gardiners Family To Reach 300KwH Per Month?
In order to find out how many months it will take for my family to reach 300KwH per month I need to find out the equation of my fitted line. The first thing I need to do is find out what the slope is. I can tell the slope is decreasing already but can find out the exact slope by using two ordered pairs from the graph. (1, 4526) & (5, 4406) I follow the equation y2-y1/x2-x1 equals the slope to find the answer. 4406-4526/5-1 = -120/4, which is simplified to -30. Now using the equation for slope intercept form which is y=mx+b I am going to add the slope to the equation. y=-30x+b. Now to find out what b equals I put in an ordered pair for x and y. I chose (1,4526) as my ordered pair. The equation now looks like this: 4526=-30(1)+b. First I solve -30x1 which is -30 making the equation 4526=-30+b. I then add 30 to both sides making this equation: 4556=b. This tells you what b is and you can now make your full equation. y=-30x+4556 this is my equation for the graph.
Final Analysis
Now that I have my equation to find how long it will take my family to decrease to only using 300KwH per month I just punch in the numbers. I will put 300 in for y as it is the KwH and solve my equation. 300=-30x+4556. First subtract both sides by 4556 making the equation this: -4526=-30x. Then I am going to divide both sides by -30 to get the x value by itself. Which equals 4526/30=x. This is the amount of months. Rounded to the nearest whole number it would take my family 142 months to slowly decrease to using 300KwH per month. This is 11 years and 8 months altogether for my family to reach 300KwH per month.
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