Sarah is self-publishing her 300-page novel and wants to estimate the printing costs. She looks up printing costs for other paperback books and plots the number of pages (x) against the cost (y) in dollars.

Answer the questions to estimate the cost of printing a 300-page paperback book.

1. What is the y-intercept for the trend line? What is the real-world meaning of this point?

2. One point on the trend line is (200, 6). Using this point and the y-intercept, find the slope of the trend line. Show your work.

3. What is the real-world meaning of the slope?

4. Use the slope and y-intercept to write an equation for the trend line in slope-intercept form.

5. Use your equation to estimate the cost of printing Sarah's 300-page book.

Jenna stood in front of the closed door. she knew she hadevery right to be here. your exam scores are just as high ascora's, she said to herself. there's no reason you shouldhave been left off the math team while cora was namedcaptain. she had never been one to rock the boat, but shecouldn't just let this lie. she pushed the door open and saw ms. jenson, the mathteam advisor, sitting at her desk. "ms. jenson? can i talk toyou for a minute? " her voice wavered, but she tried to lookconfident."sure," said ms. jenson, "but i hope this isn't about namingcora captain of the math team. i'm afraid my decision isfinal."jenna took a deep breath and prepared to plead her case. which statement best describes the external conflict in this passage?

What is the main problem with the following critique? “you put some thought into it, but you obviously do not care much about the topic you are presenting.” a. it is not ethical. b. it is not constructive c. it is not specific. d. it is not behavior focused.

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. according to one joke, scientists are now using lawyers instead of rats in laboratory experiments. there are three reasons for this change. for one thing, there are more lawyers than rats. for another, the scientists become less emotionally attached to the lawyers. and finally, certain things are so disgusting that rats won’t do them. 1. a lawyer must have made up this joke. 2. some people feel there are too many lawyers. 3. lawyers have the reputation of being willing to do anything. 4. scientists have the reputation of