A barrel contains some water. More water is being added at a steady rate. After 3 minutes, the barrel contains 6 gallons. After 5 minutes, the barrel contains 8 gallons. Assume this is a linear function. What is the slope and y-intercept of the function representing this situation?

Astudy was interested in determining if eating milk chocolate lowered someone's cholesterol levels.ten people's cholesterol was measured. then, each of these individuals were told to eat 100g of milk chocolate every day and to eat as they normally did. after two weeks, their cholesterol levels were measured again. is there evidence to support that their cholesterol levels went down? how should we write the alternative hypothesis? (mud = the population mean difference= before - after)a. ha: mud = 0b. ha: mud > 0c. ha: mud < 0d. ha: mud does not equal 0