Question

On a snow day, Jada created two snowmen in her yard. Snowman A was built to a height of 51 inches and Snowman B was built to a height of 36 inches. The next day, the temperature increased and both snowmen began to melt. At sunrise, Snowman A's height decreased by 6 inches per hour and Snowman B's height decreased by 3 inches per hour. Let AA represent the height of Snowman A tt hours after sunrise and let BB represent the height of Snowman B tt hours after sunrise. Graph each function to determine the number of hours after sunrise when both snowmen have an equal height.

Answer 1

From the graph of the linear functions, we have that both snowman's will have the same height of 21 inches after 5 hours.

What is a linear function?

A linear function is modeled by:

y = mx + b

In which:

• m is the slope, which is the rate of change, that is, by how much y changes when x changes by 1.

• b is the y-intercept, which is the value of y when x = 0, and can also be interpreted as the initial value of the function.

For this problem, we have that:

• The initial height is the intercept.

• The melting rate, as a negative, is the slope.

Hence the functions are given as follows:

• A(t) = 51 - 6t.

• B(t) = 36 - 3t.

The functions are graphed at the end of the answer, with A(t) in red and B(t) in blue, and they intersect at (5,21), meaning that both snowman's will have the same height of 21 inches after 5 hours.

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