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Course: 7th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY) > Unit 1
Lesson 2: Topic B: Unit rate and constant of proportionality- Intro to rates
- Unit rates
- Solving unit rate problem
- Solving unit price problem
- Constant of proportionality from equation
- Constant of proportionality from equations
- Identifying constant of proportionality graphically
- Constant of proportionality from graphs
- Constant of proportionality from table (with equations)
- Constant of proportionality from tables (with equations)
- Comparing proportionality constants
- Compare constants of proportionality
- Interpret proportionality constants
- Interpret constants of proportionality
- Worked example: Solving proportions
- Solving proportions
- Writing proportions example
- Writing proportions
- Proportion word problem: cookies
- Proportion word problem: hot dogs
- Proportion word problems
- Equations for proportional relationships
- Writing proportional equations from tables
- Writing proportional equations
- Interpreting graphs of proportional relationships
- Identify proportional relationships from graphs
- Interpreting graphs of proportional relationships
- Interpret constant of proportionality in graphs
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Interpreting graphs of proportional relationships
Learn how to read and understand graphs of proportional relationships.
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- For the question at, isn't it supposed to the distance in 5 hours? Not 4? Why is it true? 2:20(21 votes)
- Well spotted! It is indeed 400 km in 5 hours, not 4.(10 votes)
- He said they we drove 400 kilometers for 4 hours but it was 5 hours , just saying the small problem ;) ;) but the video was useful(5 votes)
- Yes, you are right. Sal made a mistake. There is a correction box explaining the error.(2 votes)
- AtSal said that the distance is 4 but shouldn't it be 5. 2:20(4 votes)
- The first question doesn't tell us what is going on. Is this a mistake?(3 votes)
- no, it is just about finding proportional relationships(2 votes)
- At, point A isn't supposed to be checked. The vertical coordinate of point A is supposed to be the distance driven in 5 hours, right? 2:58(1 vote)
- Yes, you are correct. Sal made a mistake. There is a correction box explaining the error.(2 votes)
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- Why at, did he say that the first option is correct when it was not. The vertical coordinate of point a was five hours when he said it was four hours. That would make it 320 kilometers instead of 400 kilometers. 2:47(1 vote)
- You are correct. Sal made a mistake. There is a correction box that pops up to explain the error.(1 vote)
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Video transcript
- [Voiceover] Let's get some
practice interpreting graphs of proportional relationships. This says the proportion
relationship between the distance driven and the amount of time driving shown in the following graph,
so we have the distance driven on the vertical axis, it's
measured in kilometers, then we have the time driving
and it's measured in hours along the horizontal axis. We can tell just visually
that this, indeed, is a proportional relationship,
how do we know that? Well, the point (0, 0) is on this graph, the graph goes through the origin. If we have zero time, then we
have zero distance, and we can also see that it's a line, then
it's a linear relationship. If you have a linear
relationship that goes through the origin, you're dealing with
a proportional relationship. You could also see that by
taking out some points here. Let's see, I'm just eyeballing,
so I'm gonna look at where does the graph kind of hit
a very well-defined point. Actually, point A right
over here, we see that when our time is five hours, our distance travelled or driven is 400 km. Then if we look at time,
this point right over here, when our time is 2.5, we see that our distance driven is 200 km. And notice, the ratio
between these variables at any one of these points is the same. 400 divided by five is 80, and 200 divided by 2.5
is also going to be 80. Or if you wanna go the other way around, to go from time to distance, we're always multiplying by 80. In fact, we can say that
distance divided by time, our proportionality
constant is going to be 80. Or if we wanted to
include the units there, it might be a little
more obvious than dealing with the rate, distance is in
kilometers, time is in hours, 80 km per hour, this is the rate at which we are driving. We are going at this
speed, 80 km per hour. This is also the proportionality constant. Anyway, with all of that out of the way, let's actually answer the questions. Which statements about the graph are true? Select all that apply. The vertical coordinate
of point A represents the distance driven in four hours. The vertical coordinate. So point A is at the coordinate (5, 400). The vertical coordinate
tells us how high to go up, how far to move in the vertical direction. That's gonna be the second
coordinate right over here, so this is the vertical coordinate. This right over here tells
us the distance we've driven in four hours, so yes, the
vertical coordinate of point A represents the distance
driven in four hours. We've driven 400 km, I like
that one, I'll check that one. The distance driven in one hour is 80 km. When you just try to eyeball
it off of the graph here, I see, after one hour, it
looks like it's a little bit at more than 75, so yeah, 80
seems like a reasonable one. But we see it even more
clearly when we look at the calculation that we did. If you take a distance,
any one of these distance, 400 km over five hours, tells you that your rate is 80 km per hour, and you know this is going
to happen for any point on this line, they tell us it's
a proportional relationship, and we can tell, visually, it's
a proportional relationship. It goes through the
origin and it is a line. So the distance travelled in
one hour is going to be 80 km 'cause we're going 80 km per hour. So in one hour, we're gonna go 80 km. So I like that choice as
well, of course, I won't pick none of the above because I
found two choices that I liked. Let's do another one
of these, this is fun. A grocery story sells cashews. The relationship between
weight and cost of cashews is shown in the following
graph, and once again, we see it is a proportional relationship. It goes through the
origin, and it is a line. Which statements about the graph are true? Select all that apply. The point (0, 0) shows the cost. It's $0 for 0 kg of cashews. Yeah, 0 kg of cashews, it's $0. Yeah, that makes sense. The point (2, 60), that's
this point right over here, shows the cost is $2 for 60 kg of cashews, the cost is
$2 for 60 kg of cashews. No, this is showing us
that the cost is $60 the cost is $60 for 2 kg of cashews. This axis right over here is
weight, actually, if you're measuring kilograms, you're
really talking about mass, but I don't wanna get too particular here. You have a mass of 2 kg,
I guess you could say the horizontal coordinate
tells you the mass. The vertical coordinate tells
you the cost, and that is $60. So it's $60 for 2 kg, not $2 for 60 kg. That would be a deal, if you could get, this is what a medium-sized grown man would weigh 60 kg, and
$2 for that much cashews, that would be an incredible deal. So you definitely wanna rule that one out. And I'm not gonna pick none
of the above because I already figured that I liked the
first choice up there. Let's just do one more,
just for good measure. An employee earns an hourly
wage shown in the graph below. Find the hourly wage. We see here in the horizontal
axis, we have hours worked, and in the vertical axis, earnings. We see it's a proportional relationship. And that makes sense, the ratio
between earnings and hours should always be constant,
if we're earning money at a constant rate, we see it visually, we go through the origin and
we're dealing with a line. So there's a bunch of ways
that we could look at it. We could say hours, hours, then dollars. After one hour, we've made $40. And just the fact, visually, that we know it's a proportional
relationship says we're making $40 per hour. If we take dollars divided by hours, I'll write out the units, 40 dollars divided by one hour. This right over here
is 40 dollars per hour. You could view this as our
proportionality constant, or you could use the rate in
which we're earning money, $40 per hour, and you see that. Two hours, $80. 80 divided by two is 40. Three hours, $120. 120 divided by three is 40. Our proportionality constant is 40. That your earnings divided by hours is always going to be equal to 40, or you could say that your earnings is equal to, if you multiply
both sides by hours, is going to be equal
to 40 times your hours. Your earnings in dollars
is going to be equal to 40 times your hours.