Vocabulary
Slope Intercept Form
Slope /
y-intercept
Rate of change / initial cost
Word Problems / Graphs
100

y = mx + b

What is the slope intercept form?

100

m = 1

b = -5

What is y = x - 5?

100
The slope for the equation y = 3x -5.

What is 3?

100

Rate of changes for the following points:

(1,5) and (0,-4)

What is 9?

100

A printer cost $150. To print a page it costs $1. Show the function to show this cost over time.

What is Cost = page + 150

(y = x + 150)

200

Change in y

Change in x

What is the slope of a line?
200

y-intercept = 7

slope = -4

What is y = -4x + 7?

200

The y-intercept for the equation y = -6 +2

What is 2?

200

Initial cost of a plastic car factory where the cost is represented as  the function:  y = 6x + 450 where y is the cost and x is the number of plastic cars made.

What is $450?

200

In a race, the checks in for Mary are shown in the table below.  What is the rate that Mary went? (speed)

Minutes           0   10  20    30                  

Mile Marker      0   .5    1    1.5    

What is 1/20 miles per minute? 

(or 20 min mile)

300

b in the formula 

y = mx + b

What is the y-intercept?

300

line with points (0,2) and (4,6)

What is y = x+2?

300

slope of the line through (-3,11) and (4,-3)

What is -2?

300

The function (a), (b), or (c) that has the greater rate of change?

(a)   (1,7), (-2,-2), (2,10) (-1, 1)

(b) y = -4x - 1

(c) y = 3x + 4

What is (b) y = -4x -1?

300

graph the following function

y = -2x + 6

See Graph WP 300

400

m in the formula 

y = mx + b

What is the slope?

400

a line parallel to y = 4x + 7 and includes the point (0,2)

What is y = 4x +2?

400

the slope for the following function line:

x  5      6      10

y  11    14     26

What is 3?

400

The rate of change for the function whose x increases by 8 while the y decreases by 4

What is -1/2?

400

What is the slope for the graph

See Graph WP 400

What is -1/4?
500

The steepness of a line in the coordinate plane

What is the slope?

500

a line perpendicular to a line with a slope of -1/2 and goes through the point (0,5)

What is y = 2x + 5?

500

The steeper line between:  y = 2x +4 and y = -3 x -4

What is y = -3x -4?

(Steeper = larger absolute value of the slope (|m|)

500

Which has the greater rate of change?

y = -5x + 4 or

x  1   3    5            

y  1   7   11

What is y = -5x + 4?

500

Graph the data below.  What is the slope and the y intercept.

X 5  10  15  

Y 1  -2  -5

See WP 500

slope = -3/5

y intercept = 4

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