Question

A train traveled for 1.5 hours to the first station, stopped for 30 minutes, then traveled for 4 hours to the final station where it stopped for 1 hour. The total distance traveled is a function of time.

Which graph most accurately represents this scenario?

Answer 1

Please help me

Answer 2

Which do you think it is?

Answer 3

I think its the first one

Answer 4

Can you tell me how far the train travels in the first 1.5 hours on the first graph?

Answer 5

It doesn't say anywhere

Answer 6

Yes it does, look at your Y axis.

Answer 7

125

Answer 8

12.5

Answer 9

So is the first one right?

Answer 10

which one is right?

Answer 11

is the first one right or wrong?

Answer 12

Please help me I really need the answer right now

Answer 13

No, for the first hour and a half the train was travelling, so the distance should be increasing, not flat. This rules out the first one. We know it stops for 30 minutes after this, so the graph must then be flat, which rules out 3 and 4. The answer is 2.