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MAY 5, 2013
To nd the equation of this line of best t, I found out where the line began and where it nished. The dierence between the nal usage and the start usage divided by the eight month period, told me the slope. The usage started at 79 kwh per day making this the y intercept of this graph. The equation of a linear line is y=mx+b. The slope (m) is -1.75 and the y intercept (b) is 79. This means that the equation of this line is y=-1.75x+79, where x is the number of months from August 2012. Now that we have done all this work, if we substitute 10 kwh per day into the equation as y and solve for x, with some simple algebra, you will gure out that : 10=-1.75x+79 then x = (10-79)/-1.75 x=39months from Aug 2012 (or 31 months from today) ! Simple changes, can make a huge dierence. It has helped my family and I reduce our carbon footprint on the world in such a short span of time. Look around your own household and make your own ! environmental action plan with your family and see the dierence in your kilowatt usage and your bill prices! -Stephanie Vesel! !