SOLUTION: You are flying from Houston to Chicago. You leave Houston at 7:30 am. At 8:35 am you fly over Little Rock, a distance of 455 miles. Write a linear equation that gives the distance

Question 1171059: You are flying from Houston to Chicago. You leave Houston at 7:30 am. At 8:35 am you fly over Little Rock, a distance of 455 miles. Write a linear equation that gives the distance in miles, y, in terms of time, x. Let x represent the number of minutes since 7:30 am.
Answer by ikleyn(52925) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For a uniform move, the traveled distance equation is

    y = v*x


where "v" is the average speed (or rate), in miles per minute, x is the time, in minutes.



To find "v" from the given data, divide  455 miles by 65 minutes (the flight time between the cities)

      v =  = 7 miles per minute.



So, finally, your equation is

    y = 7x.       ANSWER

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