Question

Okay so, here is the question. I kinda just need someone to explain what it is that I am suppose to do because I do not understand how I am suppose to “Graph these two records with two lines on two different coordinate planes.” Sorry for how detailed it is. “Sports records are often expressed in terms of time. For instance, a player may have the most homeruns in one game, in one season, or over a career. Do a bit of research on the Internet and find a sports record that is held for two different periods of time. Graph these two records with two lines on two different coordinate planes.”

Answer 1

the two coordinate planes should have time as the number on the x-axes and the specific record on the y-axes. of course whichever sports record was accomplished in the greater amount of time (such as a season, not a single game) will have to be scaled in bigger units (such as months, rather than days). does this make sense?

Answer 2

Sorta, but how am I suppose to graph them on two different coordinate planes and two different lines.

Answer 3

I think the assignment wants you to have one line per coordinate plane, so you wouldn't have 4 lines in total, just two. I don't know but that's the way it seems. If that's not it, then you can always draw the lines in different colors and make a legend at the bottom of the graphs which differentiate between the long record and short record.

Answer 4

okay so the question also asks for:

A comparison between the slopes of the two functions and the significance.
The algebraic equation for each of the two linear functions.
An explanation of how to graph both on the same coordinate plane and what would be the point of doing so.
An analysis of what it would take for another athlete to break the record, perhaps involving rate of change and/or inequalities.
An explanation of why the record for the shorter time period will always have the function with the steepest slope.

So if I have:

Most home runs in a game: 10 in 09/14/1987 by Toronto and Baltimore
Most home runs in a season: 73 in 2001 by the San Francisco Giants

I could use: (10,1987) and (73,2001) as the coordinates to find the slope?

Answer 5

I wouldn't use those to find the slope. First I would try to figure out how long an average game lasts and see how that compares to how long a season lasts in baseball, then I would scale the x-axis appropriately. the y-axis would stand for the number of home runs. to find the average slope of the lines you need to find two points on each of the lines and do (y2-y1)/(x2-x1).

Answer 6

Okay, I'm sorry but could you explain how to get the x-axis?

Answer 7

The average game is 9 innings and 2 1/2 to 3 hours in time.