Prompt: Data plays a crucial role in decision-making because it can reveal relationships between different quantities. We can often use linear equations to model these relationships and make predictions about the data. Think about a situation when you needed to analyze data. What types of trends did you find in the data? How did noticing the trends help you make a decision related to the situation? In industry, data analysis is essential to recognize the challenges a company faces, and to analyze data in practical ways. Information is purely statistics and estimates in and of itself. Analysis of data organizes, interprets, integrates, and translates the data into usable knowledge that incorporates the data meaning. A situation in which I had to analyze data was while I was collecting data for a school project on how sleeping with a phone in the bedroom vs. sleeping without a phone in a bedroom. When I graphed this data as a bar graph, I found that it showed that more people reported better sleeping patterns when they did not have a phone in the bedroom, and the opposite for when they did. A graph makes a connection between quantities more visible in ways that a table and formula do not. This would help the person viewing the graph to come up with an answer far more easily, as the graph allows them to view the data in a way that is simpler to grasp and translate.

You can run Design of experiments to quicky collect data and fine tune an analyze you data and information. Run the experiment multiple times to confirm the data. This will help you with trend analysis.

Step-by-step explanation:

a) $ 9.50

b) 17

c) y-intercept (0, 12). this is the initial amount of money that joe had prior to playing any game.

d) x-intercept ( 24, 0). this is the number of games that joe will play before he depletes the initial amount of money that he had.

e) slope is -0.5. joe's balance will reduce by 0.5 for every game that he plays.

f)

domain; [0,24]

range; [0,12]

g) x + 2y = 24

step-by-step explanation:

a)

if joe plays 5 games, this will imply that x = 5. substitute x = 5 in the equation and solve for y;

y = -.50x + 12

y = -0.50(5) + 12

y = 9.50

b)

if joe leaves the arcade with $3.50, this will mean that y = 3.50. plug in y = 3.50 in the given equation and solve for x;

y = -.50x + 12

3.50 = -0.50x + 12

0.50x = 12 - 3.50

0.5x = 8.5

x = 17

c)

the function given is   y = -.50x + 12.

the y-intercept is the point where the graph of this function will intersect the y-axis. at this point, the value of x is usually 0. plug in x = 0 in the given equation and determine y;

y = -0.50(0) + 12

y = 12

the y-intercept is thus (0, 12). this is the initial amount of money that joe had prior to playing any game.

d)

the x-intercept refers to the point where the graph of a function intersects with the x-axis. at this point, the value of y is 0. substitute y = 0 in the given equation and solve for x;

0 =   -.50x + 12

0.5x = 12

x = 24

x-intercept ( 24, 0). this is the number of games that joe will play before he depletes the initial amount of money that he had.

e)

the slope of the given equation is -0.5. the equation has been given in slope-intercept form. thus the slope is simply the coefficient of x.

joe's balance will reduce by 0.5 for every game that he plays. this is the interpretation of the slope.

f)

domain is the set of x values for which the function is real and defined. the domain will thus be; [0,24]. this will restrict the balance to only assume positive values.

on the other hand, the range is the set of y values for which a function is real and defined. the range in our case will be [0,12]. joe can have between $0 and $12 balance.

g)

the standard form of the equation of a straight line is;

ax + by = c

where a, b, and c are integers.

our equation is given as;

y = -.50x + 12

re-writing the equation we have;

0.5x + y = 12

divide all through by 0.5;

x + 2y = 24

its d. the first coordintaes are 10,32

step-by-step explanation: