A farmer is measuring the average height y of her tomato plants x weeks after planting sprouts. What is the equation and slope.

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The equation is y = 0.5x and the slope is 0.5.

A function is said to be linear if it is a straight line graph and it can be represented by the equation:

y = mx + b

where y, x are variables, m is the rate of change and b is the initial value of y.

Let y represent the height of the tomato after x weeks. Let us assume that the points are (0, 0) and (6, 3), hence:

[tex]y-y_1=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1} (x-x_1)\\\\y-0=\frac{3-0}{6-0} (x-0)\\\\y=0.5x[/tex]

Therefore the equation is y = 0.5x and the slope is 0.5.

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The equation for the scenario "A farmer is measuring the average height y of her tomato plants x weeks after planting sprouts" is y = mx + c

The slope = m

The duration after which the farmer measures the average height of her tomato = x weeks

The average height of the tomato plant after x weeks = y

For the slope to be required, it means the relationship between the average height of the her tomato (y) and the number of weeks (x) is linear

This means that the average height of the tomato will be represented by a linear equation as shown below

y  =  mx   +  c

The slope of the equation is m

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