Sakeem is a landscape architect. When he creates a lawn, his supplier charges $0.43 per square foot for sod. Sakeem charges his customers $2.00 per square foot to lay the sod. The profit Sakeem makes when creating a lawn varies directly as the number of square feet of sod he lays. Create an equation to show Sakeem’s profit when laying sod, where y is the profit and x is the number of square feet of sod. Recall that profit is the difference of the amount earned and the amount spent.

5x + 3y = - 4

step-by-step explanation:

the equation of a line in standard form is

ax + by = c ( a is a positive integer and b, c are integers )

express the line first of all in slope- intercept form

y = mx + c ( m is the slope and c the y-intercept )

to calculate m use the gradient formula

m = ( y₂ - y₁ ) / ( x₂ - x₁ )

with (x₁, y₁ ) = (7, - 3) and (x₂, y₂ ) = (4, - 8)

m = = -

y = - x + c ← is the partial equation

to find c substitute either of the 2 points into the partial equation

using (4, - 8 ), then

- 8 = - + c ⇒ c = -

y = - x - ← in slope-intercept form

multiply all terms by 3 to eliminate the fractions

3y = - 5x - 4 ( add 5x to both sides )

5x + 3y = - 4 ← in standard form

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step-by-step explanation:

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x=0.8898305 is the answer to that equation