Picture of a shopping cart. Capria is buying groceries in her neighborhood. She observes that the amount of time (in minutes) it takes for a customer to checkout at the cash register is modeled by the function

T(x)=0.17x+2.5\displaystyle {T}{\left({x}\right)}={0.17}{x}+{2.5}

where x\displaystyle {x} is the number of items in the customer's grocery cart.

How much additional time does each item in a customer's cart add to the total checkout time? minutes

Which part of the formula tells you this?

How much time is taken up by things like saying "hello", getting out ones credit card, etc.? Things that do not depend on the number of items in your cart?

Which part of the formula tells you this?

How long would it take Capria to check if she had 8 items in her cart? minutes