Question 1126051: Jose is 11 feet from a mailbox when all of a sudden he begins walking directly away from the mailbox at a constant speed of 6 feet per second.
A) how far is Jose from the mailbox 7 seconds after he started walking?
B) write a formula that expresses Jose’s distance from the mailbox(in feet),d,in terms of the number of seconds t since he started walking.
C) as Jose walks away from the mailbox, is his distance from the mailbox proportional to the time elapsed since he started walking away from the mailbox?
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Jose is 11 feet from a mailbox when all of a sudden he begins walking directly away from the mailbox at a constant speed of 6 feet per second.
A) how far is Jose from the mailbox 7 seconds after he started walking?
11 + r*t
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B) write a formula that expresses Jose’s distance from the mailbox(in feet),d,in terms of the number of seconds t since he started walking.
Same as A
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C) as Jose walks away from the mailbox, is his distance from the mailbox proportional to the time elapsed since he started walking away from the mailbox?
Look at some times and distances, see what you think.
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