Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Algebra 1, 2015
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1. Graphing Relationships
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Exercise 18 Page 94

How does the prize changes as a contestant make a mistake?

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For this situation, let the x-axis represent number of incorrect answers and let the y-axis represent prize. A contestant loses $20 for each incorrect answer. Therefore, his prize will decrease by $20 each time the number of incorrect answers increases by 1.