Question

leah keeps track of the number of people inside a music hall to attend a concert by looking at the number of scanned tickets. she plotted the data on the graph below, where x = 0 represents the time at 6 p.m., then drew a line of best fit. what does the slope of the line represent? answer the number of people in the music hall 1 hour after 6 p.m. the number of hours past 6 p.m. when there is 1 person in the music hall. the average change in the number of people for every additional hour past 6 p.m. the average change in the number of hours since 6 p.m. for every additional person.

Explanation:

The slope of a line in a context - like this one where the x - axis represents time (hours past 6 p.m.) and the y - axis represents the number of people in the music hall - is defined as the change in y (number of people) divided by the change in x (time). So, it represents the average change in the number of people for every additional hour past 6 p.m.

Answer:

The average change in the number of people for every additional hour past 6 p.m.