1. Noah placed an empty bowl on a scale. He added different amounts of a liquid to the bowl, recording the amount of liquid added, in tablespoons, and the total weight of the bowl and liquid, in , each time on a scatter plot. He fit the line to the data in his scatter plot, where represents the amount of the liquid, in tablespoons, and represents the total weight of the bowl and the liquid, in grams.

a. Interpret the slope of the line based on
the context.

b. Interpret the -intercept of the line based
on the context.