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Course: Integrated math 1 > Unit 4
Lesson 5: Applying intercepts and slope- Slope, x-intercept, y-intercept meaning in context
- Slope and intercept meaning in context
- Relating linear contexts to graph features
- Using slope and intercepts in context
- Slope and intercept meaning from a table
- Finding slope and intercepts from tables
- Linear equations word problems: tables
- Linear equations word problems: graphs
- Linear functions word problem: fuel
- Graphing linear relationships word problems
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Slope and intercept meaning from a table
Given a linear relationship in a table, Sal graphs the relationship to explore what the slope and intercepts mean in the given context.
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- I pretty much don't understand any of this I'm really confused on all of this please someone help ASAP. I'm in some serous trouble and it involves repeating a grade!(9 votes)
- Please elaborate on what you don't understand, I will provide my best attempt in helping you :)(16 votes)
- Hello everyone!
Quick question at5:40, how did Mr. Sal concluded that -7 kg of dog food per 14 days is equivalent to -1/2 of a kg of dog food per one day? Isn't it supposed to be -1 kg of dog food per 2 days?(5 votes)- Half a kilogram per day is the same as 1 kilogram every 2 days.(11 votes)
- how will any of this teach me how to dropship and get rich(2 votes)
- It probably won’t help you in dropshiping. But what if you failed in that trade? You might use it somewhere. Learning stuff is never bad.(11 votes)
- It Subtracts 3.5 Of Food(7 votes)
- I thought it was 3.5 per week not 1/2(4 votes)
- It is -1/2 kg/day which is the same as 3.5 kg/wk. Sal even talks about every 14 days it going down 7, so a third equivalent fraction is 7 kg/2 wks.(6 votes)
- what is the slope intersept form(3 votes)
- slope {y} intercept form is y=mx+b
point (x1,y1) slope form is y-y1=m(x-x1)
standard form is normally Ax+By=C(6 votes)
- In the problem, Felipe decides to measure how much food is left after each week, but he decides to do this only after 2 weeks after initially opening it. Does this two weeks have any significance in the problem?(3 votes)
- It is very significant because Sal is trying to find how much food was originally in the bag (y intercept), so we have to go backwards 2 weeks to find that amount.(5 votes)
- what does he mean when he says that t goes down by an entire kilogram at around4:10-4:40(3 votes)
- I think that was a "pause mistake" that Sal says as he is trying to explain it because he goes on to say that every 2 weeks, it goes down 7 kilograms (not 1 kilogram). If the slope is -7/3.5 days/kg, reducing gives -2 days/kg.(3 votes)
- Can someone please explain how Sal concluded that the y-intercept was the point (0,21)? I understood the reason for the x-value being zero but i’m confused about the y-value. Thank you!(2 votes)
- He talked about slope and came to the conclusion that over 14 days, it goes down 7. So going backwards from (14,14) If you go back 14 (14-14=0), you go up 7 (14+7=21) to get to the point (9,21).(4 votes)
- What does the slope mean?(2 votes)
- From a table of values, the slope measures the rate of change of the value of y, for every 1-unit increase in the value of x.(3 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] We're told
that Felipe feeds his dog the same amount every day
from a large bag of dog food. Two weeks after initially opening the bag, he decided to start weighing
how much food remained in the bag on a weekly basis. Here's some of his data. So we see after 14 days,
there's 14 kilograms remaining. Then after another seven days pass by, so now we're at 21 days
from the beginning, there's only 10.5 kilograms left. Then after 28 days there
are seven kilograms left. All right, so we are going
to try to use this data to start answering some
interesting questions, and maybe we'll also try to
visualize it with a graph. So the first thing that
we might try to tackle is well how much food was
in the bag to begin with if we assume that he's using the same amount of food every week. So pause this video and see
if you can figure that out. How much food was in the bag to begin with if we assume that Felipe
is feeding his dog the same amount every week? Okay now there's several ways to do this, but to help us visualize this, let me see if I can graph
the data that we have and then see what would happen
as we approach the beginning of this, of what's going
on here, the dog feeding, and maybe as we go to the end as well. So let's see, this is my
x-axis, this is my y-axis. I'm going to make x-axis
measure the passage of the days, so number of days on the x-axis. And on the y-axis I'm going to measure, I'm gonna measure food remaining,
and that is in kilograms. And let's see, it looks like
maybe if my scale goes up to, let's make this five, 10, 15, 20, and then 25, I can make
it a little higher, 25, I think this will be sufficient. And then we wanna go up to 28 days, and it looks like they're
measuring everything on a weekly basis, so let's say that this is seven, 14, 21, and then 28. And they gave us some data points. So after 14 days, there's
14 kilograms remaining, so 14 days, there's 14
kilograms remaining, right over there. After 21 days, there's
10.5 kilograms remaining, 21 days, 10.5 is right about there. After 28 days there's
seven kilograms remaining, so after 28 days, seven kilograms. And we're assuming the rate of the dog food usage is the same, that he's feeding his dog
the same amount every week. And so this would describe a line, that the rate is going to
be the slope of that line, and then if we can plot this line, if we know where that line
intersects the x and y-axes, we might be able to figure
out some other things. So actually let me draw a line here, let me see if I can use
this little line tool to connect the dots in a reasonable way. So let's say it looks something
like that, that's our line, that'll describe how quickly
he is using his dog food. So let me make sure that this dot is, should be on the line as well. Now let's try to answer
that first question, and think about how we might do it. How much food was in
the bag to begin with? So what point here
represents how much food was in the bag to begin with? Well that's the amount of
food remaining at day zero, at the beginning of this, so that would be this
point right over here, would describe how much food
was in the bag to begin with. This would be the y-intercept,
y-intercept is when our x value is equal to
zero, what is our y value. And when we just look at it, the graph, it looks like it's a little bit over 20, but we could find the exact value by thinking about the slope,
which is thinking about the rate at which the dog
food is being depleted. We can see that every week,
every week that goes by, or every seven days that goes by, it looks like we use 3.5 kilograms. Or another way to think about it, every two weeks it looks like
we use an entire kilogram. So let me put it this way, when we go plus 14 days, plus 14 days, it looks like we use up, or the
food remaining goes does by, goes down every two weeks it
goes down by seven kilograms, seven kilograms, negative seven kilograms. So if we wanna figure
out this exact value, we just have to reverse things. If we are going back 14 days, then we are going to
go up seven kilograms. So if we were at 14, up seven kilograms, this right over here is
the point zero comma 21. So how much food did Felipe
start with in the bag? 21 kilograms, and we got
that from the y-intercept. Now another question is how much is Felipe feeding his dog everyday. Pause this video and see
if you can figure that out. Well we know every 14 days he's feeding the dog seven kilograms, so one way to think about it is, and we're really looking at the slope here to figure out the rate at
which he's feeding his dog. So the slope is equal
to our change in the y, so negative seven kilograms, every our change in the x, every 14 days, and so seven over 14 is
the same thing as 1/2, so this is equal to negative
1/2 of a kilogram per day. So this tells us everyday
the food remaining is going down half a kilogram, so that means he's feeding his dog, assuming his dog is eating
the food and finishing it, that his dog is eating
half a kilogram a day. And if we wanted to ask another question, how many days will the bag last? How would you think about that? And we know it's going
to be out here someplace, if we just continue that line, because this point right over here, where our line intersects the x-axis, that would be our x-intercept, that is the x value when
our y value is zero, and our y is the amount of food remaining. So we wanna know what day do
we have no food remaining. And we could try to estimate it, or we could figure out it exactly. We know that every 14 days
we use up seven kilograms. So if we are at seven, as
we are right over here, and we go 14 days in the future, we should use up the
remaining contents of the bag, so plus 14 days we're going to use up the remaining seven kilograms. And so this should happen
14 days after the 28th day, so this is going to be the 42nd day.