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3-2 Applications Name 4. Estimate the x intercept based on your graph and describe what it tells us about the business 5. Find the slope of the line using two of the points from the table. 6. Notice that in calculating the slope, you subtracted two profits in the numerator, and two numbers of concs sold in the denominator. Based on this, what are the units for our done? What does it tell us about the business 7. Based on your answer to Question 6, how much would the profit go up if they sell 10 cones? Twenty cones? 8. How much would the profit go up if they sell x cones? 9. Now let's put the pieces together. Using your answers from Questions 3 and 8. write a formula in the form P that describes the company's profit based on the number of cones they sell. 10. Remember that festival where the snow cone business sold 8.000 units? How much profit would Frosty the Cone Man make if he sells 10,500 cones at that festival?

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Cones sold	Profit
0	-375
200	-181
400	13
600	207
800	401
1000	595

1. and 2.

Profit 800 600 400 200 200.....* 400 600 800 1000 1200 -200 -400 -600

3.

Y-intercept is -375. It tells that if the business sells 0 cones, they will incur a loss of $375.

4.

X-intercept is nearly 390. It tells that if the business sells 390 cones, they will have neither profit, nor loss.