The amount, y, a museum spends on new exhibits is given by the equation y = 0.25x.
x is the museum's total budget. The
museum spends $7 million on new
exhibits in a year.
What is the museum's total budget for the
year?

to plot points   for x just start at the origin (middle) and go to the left however many times it say(if the number is a positive) if the number is a negative then go right however many times it says if it is 0 go nowhere

now keep you pencil there and go up however many times it says on y(if it is positive) if it is negative then go down however many times it says. if it says 0 go nowhere.

you have just plotted a point! now when you finish plotting all of them connect them with a ruler

plot each point as (-3, 7), (0,4), (3,1), (8,-4)   in the parenthesis on the left of the comma is x and the right is y.

umm you say your want to . but you do know that this is the mathematics.  

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