Sonny has entered a reading contest at the local library. After reading two books, he has read 396,000 words of text. After five books, he has read 990,000 words of text. Write a linear function in slope-intercept form to model his progress where x is the number of books read and y is the total number of words read. y= ___________  How many books will he need to read to reach a total of 10,000,000 words?

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Sonny has entered a reading contest at the local library. After reading two books, he has read 396,000 words of text. After five books, he has read 990,000 words of text. Write a linear function in slope-intercept form to model his progress where x is the number of books read and y is the total number of words read.

y= ___________ 

How many books will he need to read to reach a total of 10,000,000 words?

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