## anonymous one year ago HELP PLEASE!! Can anyone help me with this, I have tried several different ways I still can seem to get it. A detective notes that 118 burglaries were reported through May of this year a. Create an equation that expresses the number of burglaries as a function of time (in months). b. Use this equation to estimate the number of burglaries through the end of the year.

1. amistre64

we have 2 points of reference ... (0,jan) and (118,may) form a line from the 2 points

2. amistre64

well, 0 might be for the begining of the year, day1 how many months does it take to get to may?

3. anonymous

5 MONTHS

4. amistre64

then in 5 months there have been 118 burglars for an average of 118/5 per month, what can we do with this rate of change?

5. anonymous

THIS IS WERE I AM CONFUSED

6. amistre64

if 118/5 burglars happen in 1 month, then how many happen in 3 months? in 5 months? in 12 months? think about it.

7. amistre64

$burglars=\frac{burglars}{month}*month$ $burglars=burglars*\cancel{\frac{month}{month}}^{=1}$

8. anonymous

OK SO 118*1