Dairy Queen Restaurant charges $4.00 for a Mini-Blizzard (a type of ice cream treat) and $0.50 per additional candy that the customer wishes to mix-in. You determine that a linear model is a good way to represent this information.

a)Determine the independent variable:____________________________________________

b)Determine the dependent variable:_____________________________________________

c) Give the rate of change (with units):_____________________________________________

d) Give the y-intercept:__________________________________

e)Create a linear model for this situation. _____________________________________________________