3. A store offers packing and mailing services to customers. If a customer ships a box
weighing 4 pounds, it would cost $9. If a
customer ships a box weighing 8 pounds, it
would cost $23. Identify the following
characteristics:
a. What is the input?
b. What is the output?
C. What is the slope? Show your work.
d. What does the slope represent in words?
e. What is the y-intercept? Show your work.
f. What does the y-intercept represent in
words?

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Step-by-step explanation:

something that characterises a right triangle is the fact that we may use pythagoras' theorem to find any one of its sides given that we have the length of the other two sides. here, we have the length of the hypotenuse, √(87) yd, and one other side, √(23) yd, thus we can easily find the length of the remaining side using pythagoras' theorem as defined below:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2, where c is the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b are the lengths of the other two sides.

thus, given that c = √(87) and a = √(23), we may substitute these into the formula we defined above to get:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

(√87)^2 = (√23)^2 + b^2 (substitute c = √87 and a = √23 into the equation)

87 = 23 + b^2 (evaluate (√87)^2 = 87 and (√23)^2 = 23 - remember that the square root of a number, squared will equal that very same number)

64 = b^2 (subtract 23 from both sides)

√64 = b (take the square root of both sides)

8 = b (evaluate √64 = 8)

therefor, the length of the unknown leg in the right triangle is 8 yd (first answer).