Maria, Shanta and Farida had sweets in the ratio of 10 : 5 : 3. Maria gave Shanta and Farida a total of 68 sweets so that all of them had the same number of sweets. Find the total number of sweets the girls had.

the slope of the line is 60

one point on the line is (40,10)

step-by-step explanation:

in the equation outside the parenthesis the equation always tells you the slope. in this case it is 60.

in the parenthesis is also says 40 which is x because it is near the x and 10 is y because it is near y.