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Given that, due to erosion, a river shoreline is losing several thousand pounds of soil each year. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of soil lost per year is y = 12,000x. 

Then we have to find how many pounds of soil does the shoreline loses in a year.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The standard form of the linear equation is given by, y = a + bx where a is the y-intercept and b is the slope.

In this question, it is given that y = 12,000x, where y-intercept a=0 and the slope b=12,000.

So 12,000 pounds of soil does the shoreline loses in a year.

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