A bicycle shop rents bicycles by the hour. It charges an equipment fee with every rental. The graph shows the cost of renting a bicycle for different periods of time. Drag numbers to complete a linear function in terms of y = mx + b to model the situation. Numbers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Afarmer began a new method of reducing grain spills. this reduced the number of mice on the farm. the number of snakes in the surrounding area decreased at the same time. the snakes depended on the mice that lived in the field. what’s the likely reason the snake population decreased? a. the number of snake predators increased. b. the number of mice increased. c. the number of mice decreased. d. the pesticides affected the snakes. e. a new breed of mice moved into the field.