You exercise for one hour each day and you burn 8.5 calories per minute. If you graphed the number of calories you burned as the output, compared to the number of minutes you exercise as input, what would the graph look like? Which of the following would not be true?

Question

You exercise for one hour each day and you burn 8.5 calories per minute.  If you graphed the number of calories you burned as the output, compared to the number  of minutes you exercise as input, what would the graph look like? Which of the following would not be true?

Vocaloid · Answer

Answer choices:

A.The graph would be a line.
B.The graph would rise from left to right.
C.The graph would be only in the first quadrant.
D.The larger the number of minutes, the fewer calories you would burn

Vocaloid · Answer

You burn 8.5 calories per minute

At 0 minutes you’ve burned 0 calories
At 1 minute you’ve burned 8.5 calories
At 2 minutes you’ve burned 8.5 * 2 = 17 calories

And so on.

What would the graph look like? Once you’ve determined that, go through each statement and see which one is *false*.