Question

landon keeps track of the number of people inside a music hall to attend a concert by looking at the number of scanned tickets. he plotted the data on the graph below, where ( x = 0 ) represents the time at 6 p.m., then drew a line of best fit. what does the point ( (2,171) ) on the line of best fit represent?

Explanation:

In a coordinate - point \((x,y)\), \(x\) represents the independent variable and \(y\) represents the dependent variable. Here, \(x\) is the number of hours after 6 p.m. and \(y\) is the number of people inside the music hall. For the point \((2,171)\), when \(x = 2\) (2 hours after 6 p.m., which is 8 p.m.), the value of \(y=171\) (the number of people inside the music hall).

Answer:

The point \((2,171)\) represents that at 8 p.m. (2 hours after 6 p.m.), there are 171 people inside the music hall.