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2 years ago

Maxine can swim 240 meters in 4 minutes. What is Maxine's unit rate?

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Answer: A) 18.2 minutes
B) 4.5 minutes.
Step-by-step explanation:
A) Maxine can mow one lawn in 24 minutes, so the rate of work is:
1/24 of the lawn per minute.
Sammie can mow one lanw in 36 minutes, so the rate of work is:
1/36 of the lawn per minute.
The amount of the lawn that each has left to lawn by the minute x is:
Maxine = 1 -(1/24)*x
Sammie = 1 - (1/36)*x
we want to find the value of x such that:
2*(1 - (1/24)*x) = 1 - *(1/36)*x
which means that the amount that Sammie has left is two times the amount that Maxine has left to mow.
2 - (1/12)*x = 1 - (1/36)*x
2 - 1 = (1/12 - 1/36)*x
1/0.055 = x = 18.2
by the minute 18.2
B) Similar to before, here the rates are:
For Maxine, R = 1/6
For Sammie, R = 1/9
The amount they have left to mow by minute x is:
Maxine = 1 - (1/6)*x
Sammie = 1 - (1/9)*x
We want to solve, similar to before.
2( 1 - (1/6)*x) = 1 - (1/9)*x
2 - (1/3)*x = 1 - (1/9)*x
2 - 1 = (1/3 - 1/9)*x
1 = (2/9)*x
1*9/2 = x = 4.5
So here the solution is 4.5 minutes. Hope this helps

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Part c)

The Slope of the line is: m=-50 and represents the amount of money spent per week.

Part d)

The y-intercept is: c=300 and represents the maximum money we have that can be spend over the weeks (i.e. our maximum budget alowed).

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this question we shall look at linear equations of the simplest form reading:

$y = mx+c$ Eqn(1).

where:

$y$ : is our dependent variable that changes as a function of x

$x$ : is our independent variable that 'controls' our equation of y

$m$ : is the slope of the line

$c$ : is our y-intercept assuming an $x$ ⇔ $y$ relationship graph.

This means that as $x$ changes so does $y$ as a result.

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Here we know that $300 is our Total budget and thus our maximum value (of money) we can spend, so with respect to Eqn (1) here:

$c=300$

The budget of $50 here denotes the slope of the line, thus how much money is spend per week, so with respect to Eqn (1) here:

$m=50$

So finally we have the following linear equation of:

$y= - 50x + 300$ Eqn(2).

Notice here our negative sign on the slope of the line. This is simply because as the weeks pass by, we spend money therefore our original total of $300 will be decreasing by $50 per week.

So with respect to Eqn(2), and different weeks thus various $x$ values we have:

Week 1: $x=1$ we have $y= -50 *1 + 300 = -50 +300 = 250$ dollars.

Week 2: $x=2$ we have $y= -50 *2 + 300 = -100 +300 = 200$ dollars.

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Part c)

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Part d)

The y-intercept is: $c=300$ and represents the maximum money we have that can be spend over the weeks (i.e. our maximum budget alowed).

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