What does the slope means in this problem?

Question

You have $ 90 to spend on a barbecue where you want to serve chicken and steak. Chicken costs $ 2.00 per pound and steak costs $ 5.00 per pound. Write a function that relates the amounts of chicken and steak you can buy.

After you write the equation that would be 2x+5y=90 then you solve it and it gives you y= -2x+18. What does the slope and

y-intercept means in the final equation?

Answer 1

The more chicken you buy the less steak you can afford.