For babysitting nicole charges a flat fee of $3 plus $5 per hour write an equation for the cost c after h hours of babysitting. what do you think the slope and the y-intercept represent? how much money will she make if she baby-sits 5 hours?

For the linear equation y = mx + b, m is the slope (the change in y for a change in x) and b is the y intercept, i.e. the value of y when x is zero.  For this problem, b (y-intercept) is the money Nicole would make even if the hours she babysits was zero, i.e. the flat fee.  Therefore, b = $3.  The slope m is the money she makes babysitting per hour, i.e. $5.  Therefore, the equation is

    y = 5*x + 3.

In function notation we just replace y with f(x) (meaning the output of the function f for input x):

    f(x) = 5*x + 3.

In five hours (x = 5), Nicole would make:

    y = 5*5 + 3 = 25 + 3 = $28.

Step-by-step explanation: :)

the population of other specie of birds will decline or other specie of birds will find some alternate source of food to survive.

explanation:

according to the competitive exclusion principle, which is also known as gause's law, two specie living in the same niche and feeding on the same resource cannot co-exist stably.

as we have well studied the theory of natural selection which states that only those organisms survive which have better tendency to compete for food and adapt to the environmental conditions.

coming towards the question, what wi ll happen when one species outcompetes the other for the small fish , the other specie will not get enough food and will start to die or decline in population. eventually either other specie needs to find another alternative food source for itself or migrate at some other location where there is less competition otherwise it will just not exist anymore at that niche.

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