Answer: C. 1 1/3
Step-by-step explanation:
Slope is calculated by the change in y/the change in x.
Plug values from the table into the equation:
(19-15)/(4-1)
Evaluate and Simplify:
4/3 -> 1 1/3
Recall that

There are three cases to consider:
(1) When

, we have

and

, so

(2) When

and

, we get

and

, so

(3) When

, we have

and

, so

So
It is presumed that the 10m is the vertical distance in 4 floors so 10meters divided by 10 seconds is 1m/second is the average speed of the escalator. Hard to add anything to this to make up to the required 40 words.