The following octagon is formed by removing four congruent right triangles from a rectangle. What is the area of each triangle?
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Given:
Rita covered 1 mile in 15 minutes.
She covered 3 miles in 30 minutes.
To find:
The rate at which she is riding.
Solution:
Let y be the number of miles covered in x minutes.
Rita covered 1 mile in 15 minutes. So, the point is (15,1).
She covered 3 miles in 30 minutes. So, the point is (30,3).
Slope of the line:
Therefore, she is riding miles per minute.