Question

Victor read 9 pages of a book last night. While riding the bus to school this morning, he reads an additional 2 pages each minute. Complete the table below showing how many total pages Victor will have read after m minutes of reading on the bus. Then graph the ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Write an equation to represent the situation.

Answer 1

Equation-    p= 9+2m

Where p= no of pages read by victor

            m=total time in minutes

Minutes(m)        Pages Read(p)

       0                       9

       1                      11

       2                      13

       3                      15

      4                      17

      m                         9+2m

Step-by-step explanation:

As provided in the question Victor has already read 9 books. After that, he begins his bus journey where-in he reads at the rate of 2 words per minute.

Hence after “m” minutes, he would have read “2m” pages

So, total pages read by Victor(p) = 2m+9

Drawing of coordinates-

Since at m=0 minutes, he has already read 9 pages (previous nights), thus coordinates would be (0,9)

Similarly, next coordinates would be (1,11) at m=1 minute where-in he would have read 9+2(11) pages and so on-

Coordinates-

(0.9) (1,11) (2,13) (3,15) (4,17) (m,9+2m) after “m” minutes of travel