Question

Cat Years 1 3 4 6 7
Human Years 13 33 43 63 73

What is the meaning of the slope for this data?
A. 20 years of a cat's life is equivalent to one year of a human's life.
B. One year of a cat's life is equivalent to about 10 years of a human's life.
C. One year of a cat's life is equivalent to 5 years of a human's life.

Answer 1

B

Answer 2

Notice that for human years, 33-13=20
For cat years: 3-1=2

Thus the ratio is 20/2=10/1 meaning that for 10 years of human life, at cat is only 1 year old

Answer 3

oh okay i get now. thanks