{"id":2467,"date":"2021-10-14T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2467"},"modified":"2022-04-23T00:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T00:15:03","slug":"introduction-to-linear-equations","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-to-linear-equations\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Linear Equations","rendered":"Introduction to Linear Equations"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Understand linear equations and their statistical relationship<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-2468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/10\/14195157\/pexels-maria-orlova-4969829-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snow on a small canal in a city.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>During a heavy snowfall, it is predicted that snow will fall at a rate of 2 inches per hour. If there is already 6 inches of snow on the ground from a previous storm, how long will it be until there are 14 inches of snow on the ground? This question can be answered with a linear equation. Many relationships between two quantitative variables can be modeled by a linear relationship. This section reviews the basic concepts of lines.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Understand linear equations and their statistical relationship<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/10\/14195157\/pexels-maria-orlova-4969829-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snow on a small canal in a city.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>During a heavy snowfall, it is predicted that snow will fall at a rate of 2 inches per hour. If there is already 6 inches of snow on the ground from a previous storm, how long will it be until there are 14 inches of snow on the ground? This question can be answered with a linear equation. Many relationships between two quantitative variables can be modeled by a linear relationship. This section reviews the basic concepts of lines.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2467\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Narrow city canal on cold winter day. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Maria Orlova. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pexels. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/narrow-city-canal-on-cold-winter-day-4969829\/\">https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/narrow-city-canal-on-cold-winter-day-4969829\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":169134,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Narrow city canal on cold winter day\",\"author\":\"Maria Orlova\",\"organization\":\"Pexels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/narrow-city-canal-on-cold-winter-day-4969829\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2467","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":303,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2467\/revisions\/3968"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/303"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2467\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}