A country commits to decreasing spending for infrastructure in various ways at a rate of 30% per year. At the time of the announcement, the country is spending $12 billion per year. Which graph models the amount of infrastructure spending for future years?

It would be the graph that has point (0,12) and is decreasing to the right.

2x^2+5x+17

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- "runner b is moving at a slower rate."

- "the graphs shown are graphs of distance(km) against time(min).

the slopes of this graphs are are given by:

slope = (change in y)/(change in x)

= (change in distance)/(change in time)

this is the formula for finding the speed. so, the slope of these graphs represent the speed of the runner.

taking each division in the graph to represent 1 on both axis:

runner a ⇒ speed = (2-0)/(1-0)

= 2/1

= 2 km/min

runner b ⇒ speed = (3-0)/(3-0)

= 3/3

= 1 km/min

this shows that   runner b is moving at a slower rate."