Algebra is so confusing!!

jenzy569

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Can someone please help me with this assignment??


An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new faster server, which will replace the old server, can handle 45,000 "hits" (users accessing the site) per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 110,000 hits per second. But, every month, the peak demand increases by 2500 hits per second. Use a proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 24 months.




1. How do we write the equation of a horizontal line? What would be an example?
2. How do we write the equation of a vertical line? What would be an example?
3. The points (1, 3), (2, 5), (8, 17), (50, 101), and (1000, 2001) all lie on line M.
The points (1, -1), (2, -3), (8, -15), (50, -99), and (1000, -1999) all lie on line N.
a. Form the equations of both the lines. Show your work.
b. What are the co-ordinates of the point of intersection of lines M and N?
c. Write the co-ordinates of the intersections of lines M and N with the x-axis.
d. Write the co-ordinates of the intersection of lines M and N with the y-axis.
 
You're asking us to conduct a classroom session; can't do that here.
To make matters worse, you have given us no idea how far YOU can get with this problem.

Did you go to the trouble of using Google; searches on "straight line equation" and the likes?

Can you answer this:
if a line crosses the x axis at point (a,b), what does b equal?
 
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