Question

How do I do rate of change???

Answer 1

Answer:

12

Step-by-step explanation:

For our problem since we only in 10 am:

I'm going to let x=4 represent the time 10:04 am

which means I'm going to let x=17 represent 10:17am.

So when x=4, y=23 miles and when x=17,y=179 miles.

You have two points.

You can use the formula $m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$.

Or just line the points up vertically and subtract them vertically, then put 2nd difference over first difference. Like this:

(    17  ,   179)

-(     4 ,      23)

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   13          156

So the slope is 156/13=12 miles/hour.