Question

you drove to your cousins house which is 460 miles away. after 2 hours you had goe 100 miles. after 8 hours you reached your destination. write an equation that gives the number of miles you had driven y in terms of the number of hours you had driven.

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Hello there

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How are you?

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Please help me...

Answer 4

Hello, I'm doing fine and trying to think of a way to solve this easily. Don't suppose this is multiple choice is it?

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no...

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this a hmwrk problem...

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i am in 7th grade...

Answer 8

Alright then give me a sec to see how to write this out.

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ok

Answer 10

Hello?

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Still here, are you doing Linear functions or...what type of math?

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algebra

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Hello?

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Linear Functions is apart of algebra, you said this is homework so what type of stuff were you learning? Like formulas that could help you plug this in.

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slope...we have to write it in slope intercept form.... no formulas my teacher told me...

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Okay then well our formula for slope is m = (y2 - y1) / (x2 - x1), familiar yes?

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yes

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Good. Now our points we'll be working with is (2,100) and (8,460). Now we need to plug them into the formula, can you do that?

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yes

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how did you get the pionts?

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Because we drove 100 miles after 2 hours and in 8 hours we reached our total 460 miles. So think of it as x=time and y=distance.

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oh... thank you so much... you want me to do it right now?

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Yep, now plug in our points and show me how the equation looks afterward. :)

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ok wait...

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i got 6

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That's just part of our solution: m=(460-100)/(8 - 2) =360/ 6. Do you understand that?

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yes

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what do we do next?

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Alright now we know that gives us 60. What we need is the linear function, our equation for this is y=m*t + b. Right now we have b = y - 60*t. m is slope, t is time, y is distance and b is our y-intercept.

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but i got 6 how did you get 60?

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Because our slope equation was m=(460-100)/(8 - 2) =360/ 6. 360 divided by 6=60

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oh yeah...sorry

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It's okay, you understand the rest tho right?

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yes...thank you so much!

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Lol no prob so you need me to walk you through the rest or...?

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no i got it...

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You r the BEST!!

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Lol just doing my job. Take care. :)

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you too!!

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do you have a email...we can keep in touch...

Answer 41

My email gets flooded x.x Lol but I'm on here alot so you could reach me through this sites mailing system easier . :)

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what do you mean by flooded?

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Tons of ppl emailing allll day. And I don't check it as much

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oh...

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so i will see ya later.!

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Yep bye.