A cell phone plan has a monthly cost that is shown in the table below. What is the correct statement regarding the average rate of change during the 40-minute time of talk?

Monthly cost of cell phone for 0 minutes is $19.95 and for 40 minutes of talk is $21.95. It means that average rate of change ( increase of monthly cost for each minute of talk time ) is: ARC = ( 21.95 - 19.95 ) / ( 40 - 0 ) = 2.00 / 40 = $0.05. C ) The average rate of change is $0.05, meaning that for each minute of talk time, the monthly bill increases by $0.05.

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step-by-step explanation:

since the sequence is geometric there is a common ratio r between consecutive terms, that is

r = 4 ÷ - 2 = - 2

r = - 8 ÷ 4 = - 2

r = 16 ÷ 8 = - 2

the next term - 13 must be incorrect as it should be - 32 for the sequence to be geometric.

the first 4 terms are therefore geometric with common ratio r = - 2