A bug is crawling up a wall with locations given in the table at right. The variables x and y represent horizontal and vertical distances from the lower left corner of the wall, measured in inches, and t represents time measured in seconds.

a. Write parametric equations for x and y, in terms of t, that generate the information given in the table.
b. Graph your parametric equations from 9a with the data points, (x, y). How do they relate?
c. Using only x and y, write the equation of the line that passes through the data points.
d. How can the parametric equations be used to find the slope of the line in 9c?

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