Shelly and terrence earned points in a game by completing various tasks. shelly completed x tasks and scored 90 points on each one. the expression below shows terrence's total points in the game: 90x - 20 what does the constant term of the expression represent? the total points terrence earned the total number of tasks terrence completed the sum of shelly and terrence's total points the difference between shelly and terrence's total points helllppp

A general linear equation can be

y = ax+  b

where a is the slope and b, the constant term, is the y-intercept.

So with this, we already can see that the constant terms are the values that the function takes when the input is zero.

Terrence's total points in the game are:

T(x) = 90x - 20

We want to see what the constant term, -20, means.

Because each task gives 90 points we can see that at the moment that Terrence had 0 completed tasks (x = 0) he had:

T(0) = 90×0 - 20 = -20

This means that he started with -20 points, then the constant term represents the initial number of points that Terrence had.

We could say that the correct option is "The total points Terrence earned (before the game started)"

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The difference between Shelly and Terrence's total points

Step-by-step explanation:

Terrence's total points in the game: 90x - 20 (constant term in the expression:  -20)

Shelly's total points in the game: 90x

Difference between Terrence's and Shelly's total points: (90x - 20) - 90x = -20

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