The cost of manufacturing soccer balls is given by C = 24,000 + 7x, where x is the number of soccer balls produced. a. What is the slope of this equation and what does it represent in the context of the problem? b. What is the y-intercept of this equation and what does it represent in the context of the problem? c. If a manufacturer wanted to spend less than $30,000 to produce soccer balls, what is the maximum number of balls that can be produced? Show your work.