A department store has two locations in a city. From 2012 through 2016, the profits for each

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A department store has two locations in a city. From 2012 through 2016, the profits for each of the store’s two branches are modeled by the functions f(x) = -0.44x + 13.62 and g(x) = 0.51x + 11.14. In each model, x represents the number of years after 2012, and f and g represent the profit, in millions of dollars.
a. What is the slope of f ? Describe what this means.
b. What is the slope of g? Describe what this means.
c. Find f + g. What is the slope of this function? What does this mean?

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College Algebra

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Authors: Robert F Blitzer

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