SOLUTION: 3) It is approximately 300 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri. Allowing for various traffic conditions, a driver can average approximately 60 miles per hour.
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Question 62105: 3) It is approximately 300 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri. Allowing for various traffic conditions, a driver can average approximately 60 miles per hour.
a) How far have you traveled after 3 hours?
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b) How far have you traveled after 4 hours?
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c) How far have you traveled after t hours? i.e. write a linear function that expresses the distance traveled, d, as a function of time, t.
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! This one is quite easy as the driver is driving 60mph -- and there is 60 minutes per hour. That means we travel 1 mile every minute. After 3 hours, the driver went 180 miles (3*60) and 240 miles in 4 hours (60*4). For t time, the distance d traveled can be represented as .
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