Ateacher already had a certain number of canned goods for the food drive each day of the food drive the class plans to ring in 10 cans the total number of canned goods for day 10 is 205 assume the relationship is linear find and interpret the rate of change and the initial value

The rate of change is given as 10 per day--the number of cans the class plans to bring each day.

After 10 days at that rate, the change will be 10*10 = 100. Since the total after 10 days is 205, we compute the initial value as 205 -100 = 105. This is the number the teacher already had.

cans = 10*days +105