"The Trouble with Poetry" - Billy Collins Directions: Follow the poem structure and style and write your own poem. Make sure your poem has a theme that reveals your perspective of your world. Replace everything in bold and all caps with your own words. Do not delete anything this is not in bold.

The slope of a linear equation is equal to the change in the value of the dependent variable divided by the change in the value of the independent variable. in this problem, the dependent variable is the profit while the independent variable is the worker's average pay. if the profit is said to increase by 1500 when worker's average pay decrease by 450, the slope is equal to 1500/(-450)=-3.33