Which of the following statements best describes a larger message of the poem? Listening to music is a good way to maintain your privacy in a crowd.

Music can make a person feel like the center of the universe.

Listening to music is a good way to forget your problems for awhile.

Music can make traveling from one place to another seem more enjoyable.

The slope of a linear equation is equal to the change in the value of the dependent variable divided by the change in the value of the independent variable. in this problem, the dependent variable is the profit while the independent variable is the worker's average pay. if the profit is said to increase by 1500 when worker's average pay decrease by 450, the slope is equal to 1500/(-450)=-3.33