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does this equation represent a linear function?
y = 5x

a. no
b. yes

Yes, it does because linear equations are straight lines, this means the degree of a linear equation must be 0 or 1 for each of its variables. For y=5x, the degree of variable y is 1 and the degree of variable x is 1.

Answer for 2: his profit would be $2.88 explanation: you have to first multiply 72 and 0.12 together to get $8.64 once you do that you know how much money the shopkeeper made from selling the candy bars individually. so you have to do 8.64-5.76=2.88 hope that ; )answer for 3: yeah i’m sorry i have no idea what number 3 is. i’m sorry i couldn’t with that.