Question

The graph shows the miles per gallon of gasoline a car uses on a trip.

What does the rate of change represent in this situation?

Select from the drop-down menu to correctly complete the sentence.

The rate of change represents

The options are: The number of miles traveled for every 1-gallon of gas used.

The number of miles used for every 1 mile traveled.

The Distance a car travels for every hour.

Answer 1

The graph shows how many miles per [one] gallon of gasoline. From that you know that the slope is miles per gallon because the y-axis will be number of miles and x-axis will be number of gallons. Since slope is change in y over change in x, the slope is number of gallons/mile.

Remember for ordered pairs, the x is first and the y is second. It will be (x, y).
So the first option, (0, 2), (1, 2), (2, 3), (1, 4), (3, 1), corresponds to this rule.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

im just working the problem out