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A baker at a bakery had made 20 pastries after 1 hour of work. After 8 hours, he had made 83 pastries. M= ?

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Answer:

  9 pastries per hour

Step-by-step explanation:

In the 7 hours after the first, the baker made 83 -20 = 63 more pastries. That rate is ...

  (63 pastries)/(7 hours) = 9 pastries per hour

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Additional comment

We have chosen to interpret the question as asking for the slope of a line on a graph of pastries vs. hours. Such a graph would show you the baker started with 11 pastries already made, so didn't actually make 20 in the first hour.

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