SOLUTION: Let's take a trip along this highway. This time let's start at Mile Marker 50 and drive east at 50mph for 2 hours. Stop, turn around and travel due West at 60 mph for 2 hours. Af
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Question 759018: Let's take a trip along this highway. This time let's start at Mile Marker 50 and drive east at 50mph for 2 hours. Stop, turn around and travel due West at 60 mph for 2 hours. After stopping to rest for 1 hour, drive east at 50 mph for 1 hour.
Time Mile Marker
0 hour 50
1 hours ________
2 hours __________
3 hours ___________
4 hours ___________
5 hours __________
6 hours___________
Plot a graph of "mile marker vs. time" Call this Graph #3
c) What is the slope of the line on your Graph #3 for the first 2 hours of this trip? Show how you arrived at your answer.
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d) What is the slope of the line for the second two hours of the trip? _________
Show how you arrived at your answer.
e) What is the slope of the line on your graph for the hour during which you rested? _____________
f) Approximately how long would it take you to arrive back at your Mile Marker 50? _____________________
Show how you arrive at your answer. Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
