Question

On the grid, sketch a graph to represent

Answer 1

Answer:

Please find attached, the required graph created on MS Excel

Step-by-step explanation:

The distance between Sandy's house and the school = 200 m

The number of minutes Sandy talked to her friend for = 10 minutes

The time it took Sandy to return home to pick her homework = 5 minutes

Let x represent Sandy's location she stops to talk to her friend 10 minutes, we have;

The slope of the motion on the graph, m₁ = (x - 0)/(t - 0)

The slope of her motion running home to pick the up her homework, m₂ = (x - 0)/(5 - 0)

Given that t > 5, the slope on trip back home, m₁, is larger than are her initial slope, m₂

Therefore, where x = 125, we have;

The rate at which she returned home = m₂ = (125 m - 0)/(5 min - 0) = 25 m/min

Given that the same rate m₂ is what she used in heading back to school, we have;

The time it takes her to get to school = 200 m/(25 m/min) = 8 minutes

Therefore, whereby it took her 10 minutes to reach point x, we have the following coordinate points on the graph in a tabular form;

$\begin{array}{ccc} Time \ (minutes) \ x-axis&&Distance \ (meters) \ y-axis\\0&&0\\10&&25\\15&&0\\23&&200\end{array}$

The plot of the above point is completed using MS Excel as shown in the attached diagram.