Question

Water flows over a dam at a rate of 500 gallons per minute. Write a function rule relating the amount of water (A) that flows over the dam to the number of minutes (M) that have passed. What are the initial value and rate of change?

Answer 1

The function would be A(m) = 500m.  The initial amount of water flowing over the dam would be 0 and the rate of change would be 500.