Answer this ASAP! 3. A store offers packing and mailing services to customers. If a customer ships a box
weighing 4 pounds, it would cost $15. If a
customer ships a box weighing 8 pounds, it
would cost $23. Identify the following
characteristics:
a. What is the input?
b. What is the output?
c. What is the slope? Show your work.
d. What does the slope represent in words?
e. What is the y-intercept? Show your work.
f. What does the y-intercept represent in words

The biologist has a second culture to examine. she knows that the population of the culture doubles every 15 minutes. after 1 hour and 15 minutes, her assistant found that 80,000 bacteria were present. a) what was the size of the initial population? b) predict the size of the culture at t=3 hours. what was the size of the population at 40 minutes? explain and justify your answers. c) create a graph of the population as a function of time. find an equation that can be used to predict the size of the population at any time t. d) examine the rate at which the bacteria culture is growing. how fast is the culture growing after 1 hour? after 1.5 hours? after 2 hours? use a time interval of h = 0.01 hours to estimate these rates. interpret these rates in terms of the context of the problem situation. how do these three rates compare?

The salesperson earns a 5% commission on the first $5,000 she has in sales. the salesperson earns a 7.5% commission on the amount of her sales that are greater than $5,000. this month the sales person had $8,000 in sales. what amount of commission, in dollars, did she earn?

5of the first 50 shoppers at a grocery store buy apples. how many shoppers can the store manager expect to check out before 25 customers buy applesa.) 100b.)150c.)200d.)250