The manager of a weekend flea market knows from pastexperience that if he charges  x dollars for a rental space atthe flea market, then the number of spaces he can rent isgiven by the equation y= 200 - 4x  .(a) Sketch a graph of this linear function. (Remember thatthe rental charge per space and the number of spacesrented can’t be negative quantities.)(b) What do the slope, the y-intercept, and the x-intercept ofthe graph represent?

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The manager of a weekend flea market knows from past
experience that if he charges  x dollars for a rental space at
the flea market, then the number of spaces he can rent is
given by the equation y= 200 - 4x  .
(a) Sketch a graph of this linear function. (Remember that
the rental charge per space and the number of spaces
rented can’t be negative quantities.)
(b) What do the slope, the y-intercept, and the x-intercept of
the graph represent?

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