SOLUTION: After diving 97 meters below sea level, a diver rises at a rate of 5 meters per minute for 10 minutes. Where is the diver in relation to the surface?

Question 844576: After diving 97 meters below sea level, a diver rises at a rate of 5 meters per minute for 10 minutes. Where is the diver in relation to the surface?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the surface
Call m below the surface
and where is time in minutes
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Plot on the vertical axis
Plot on the horizontal axis
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The rate of change of the diver's depth is
a positive m/min
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The linear equation for the diver is:

Notice that when ,
as it should
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When min

The diver is 47 m below the surface

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