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Mashaal Masha
Mar 24, 2024
A team of workers has been moving cargo off of a ship. The equation below models the approximate number of tons of cargo, $y$, that remains to be moved $x$ hours after the team started working.
$y=120-25x$
The graph of this equation in the $xy$-plane is a line. What is the best interpretation of the $x$-intercept in this context?
Difficulty: Medium
A:
The team will have moved all the cargo in about 4.8 hours.
B:
The team has been moving about 4.8 tons of cargo per hour.
C:
The team has been moving about 25 tons of cargo per hour.
D:
The team started with 120 tons of cargo to move.
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