Question

Can someone tell if my table for this problem is right? If it isn't, can you help me fix it?
Mr. Forte is using a brand new bus for his route today. When he starts, the bus has only 75 miles on it. He travels for a total of 4 hours at an average speed of 50 miles per hour, making one stop each hour.

Create a graph, equation, table, and sentence to represent the total mileage on the bus as a function of hours driven at 50 miles per hour. Let the independent variable (x) be time and the dependent variable (y) be miles the bus has traveled.
I know the equation is y=50x + 75.

Answer 1

Why have you taken x as -2 and -1

as x is the time, it should be 0,1,2,3,4..

Answer 2

Equation is right.. now substitute value of x and find corresponding y values.. and create a graph accordingly..

All the points will be in 1st quadrant..

Answer 3

perfect.. now draw a graph...

Answer 4

x y
0 75
1 125
2 175
3 225
4 275

something like this..

Answer 5

thnx @Ganpat

Answer 6

it wont go on negative side of x axis.. as i said time is always in positive...

Answer 7

alright..thnx @Ganpat

Answer 8

sure.. :)