(1) james has started quite the hot wheel collection. his mean mom decides that he will not be able to buy or accept any more hot wheels unless he donates half of his collection to kids in need. after doing this, he brings five of his favorite hot wheels to a friend’s house, and ends up losing all good ol’ grandma’s heart breaks a little when he tearfully explains to her that he’s lost his five favorite cars, so she triples his bringing instant joy to his hot wheel heart! he now has 96 hot wheel cars, more than what he started with! how many cars did he start with?

options a,b,c are the right answer.

step-by-step explanation:

a linear parent function is always represented as y = x

if we write this function in the form of y=mx+c

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now if we plot a graph we will find these characteristics:

1) y intercept of the graph is zero so its a straight line passing through origin.

2) as we can see in both the forms of function written, values of x and y may be either positive or negative for the positive slope means points on the graph are either in first quadrant or in third one.

3) it's slope is one.

the answer is the third / last answer

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