an example question: You have 650 Billion. Every 4 seconds you loose 2 Billion. How long would it
take to have a balance of 0?
#Loosing a certain amount of Money every certain amount of time, please help me my teacher sucks
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You can model it with a linear equation, since you lose a set amount of money every set amount of time.
Let’s have 1 billion dollars be 1 unit and 1 second be 1 unit.
Since you start off with 650 billion, your starting value at time = 0 should be 650. As an equation this corresponds to having a y intercept of 650. Therefore the b in mx + b should be 650.
Your slope is the amount of money gained/lost every time interval. Since we defined time to be 1 unit = 1 second and you lose 2 billion every 4 seconds, that means you lose (2/4 = )0.5 billion every second, or 500 million. Since we are losing money, the slope is negative. So the m in mx + b is -0.5.