Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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5. Analyzing and Sketching Graphs
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Exercise 1 Page 305

Calculate the rate of change between the data points.

Linear, see solution.

Practice makes perfect
We want to determine whether the given table represents a linear or nonlinear function. To do this, we will calculate the rate of change between data points.
table

We can see that as x increases by 4, y decreases by 2 each time. The rate of change is constant, so this function is linear.