The distance you travel while hiking is a function of how fast you hike and how long you hike at this rate. You usually maintain
a speed of three miles per hour while hiking. Write a statement that describes how the distance that you travel is determined. Then identify the independent and dependent variables of this function.
If hours is represented as h, your distance is therefore 3*h (due to that for every hour, you walk 3 miles. For example, in one hour you'd walk 3 miles, in 2 hours you'd walk 3+3=3*2=6 miles,etc.). If distance is represented by d, we get 3*h=d. Since you have to figure out the distance from the equation (that's the purpose of it!), the distance is the dependent variable. In addition, since you can't have 2 separate variables in one equation, h is the independent variable due to that you have to put a number for h in to figure out the distance <span />