Question

A credit card company charges \(10 when a payment is late, and \)5 a day each day the payment remains unpaid.

Does the graph show a linear equation? Why or why not?

Short answer

The graph is shown in the question is not a graph of a linear equation because it is a curved graph.

Step-by-step solution

Given information

Given in the question that a graph,

Solution

The liner equation is,

$y=a+bx$

From the equation, we find that $a$is the y-intercept and $b$is the slope,

The $y$variable is dependent and $x$is the independent variable.

The graph of the linear equation should be a striate line, but in the given graph it is a curved graph so it is not the example of linear equation.