Jayne stopped to get gas before going on a road trip. The tank already had 4 gallons of gas in it. Which best describes why the graph relating the total amount of gasoline in the tank, y, to the number of gallons that she added to it, x, will be continuous or discrete?

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xixi743 · Answer

What is "which" and where are the graphs?

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jchick · Answer

The graph will be continuous because we are not told a maximum value for the amount of gas. 
Jayne stopped to get gas before going on a road trip. The tank already had 4 gallons of gas in it. The option that best describes why the graph relating the total 
amount of gasoline in the tank, y, to the number of gallons that she added to it, x, is the graph will be continuous because we are not told a maximum value for the amount of gas.