SOLUTION: You start out driving from your house to an old friends house in a different town, which is 280 miles away. after an hour and a half, you have gone 105 miles. assuming your speed i

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Question 1087288: You start out driving from your house to an old friends house in a different town, which is 280 miles away. after an hour and a half, you have gone 105 miles. assuming your speed is constant, find a linear function d(t), which gives the distance from your house (in miles) as a function of time (in hours)
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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after an hour and a half, you have gone 105 miles.
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speed,




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from your house to an old friends house in a different town, which is 280 miles away. ...find a linear function d(t), which gives the distance from your house (in miles) as a function of time (in hours)
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Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The correct answer is  d(t) = 70*t,

where  d  is the distance  FROM YOUR HOUSE  in miles,  t  is time in hours.



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