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Lesson 10: Comparing linear functions- Comparing linear functions: equation vs. graph
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Comparing linear functions word problem: walk
Sal is given a table of values that represents four people walking to school, and is asked to determine which one started out farther from the school. Created by Sal Khan.
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- How would you express a rate as an equation?(5 votes)
- You can also shorten that down to r = d / t(5 votes)
- Which function has a greater rate of change? Which function has a greater y-intercept?(6 votes)
- They're both the same. That's why they're parallel but the second equation has more y intercept(3 votes)
- At, Sal said Gordon did start out farther from school than Elizabeth. But Gordon only started out 4 miles away and Elizabeth started out 5 miles away. So wouldn't Gordon didn't started out farther from school than Elizabeth? 1:38(4 votes)
- Gordon is actually going to the school. You can see that he gets closer to school as each hour passes. There is a constant rate of change if you graph the hours that passed and Gordon's distance from school. The rate of change is -2. As each hour passes, he gets 2 miles closer to school. This means that after 0 hours, Gordon is actually 6 miles away from school, and Elizabeth is 5 miles away from school. Gordon did actually start out farther from school than Elizabeth.(6 votes)
- Atif Hannah every time is exactly 5 miles away from school how can we know that she is napping? She is actually moving. She's probably is just walking back and forth like maybe she walk 1 mile further/closer to school then she walk back to his original distance. 2:28(5 votes)
- its possible but she is probably not moving because she stays the same distance from school at hours 0 1 2 and 3(1 vote)
- Gordon: Poor guy has to spend 3 hours walking to school!(5 votes)
- we can solve it by
y-intercept
(b). from y=mx+b(3 votes) - Hannah could be walking in a circle around the school, right?(3 votes)
- 1) The problem tells you that Hannah is walking away from the school. If she was walking in a circle, she would still be the same distance away from the school as when she started. To walk away from the school, the distance needs to be increasing.
2) You are learning about linear word problems. Linear means the equation creates a line, not a circle, or a curve.(1 vote)
- is there a more systematic way to solve this?ツ(2 votes)
- how come it says the y intercept is bigger when number 1 is 3 and number 2 is 3 and i still get it wrong(2 votes)
- Honestly, when will we actually need to know this?(2 votes)
Video transcript
Elizabeth starts out 5
miles away from school and walks away from school
at 3 miles per hour. So she's already 5 miles away. And she's going to
walk even further away at 3 miles per hour. The table below shows how
far some other students are from school
at various times. Each person is moving at a
constant speed starting at time is equal to 0. Which students started
out farther from school than Elizabeth? Select all that apply. So essentially, we
need to figure out where these students
were at time equals 0. So we know where they
were at time 1, 2, and 3. And so let's think
about their rate towards or away from school. And remember, this is
distance from school. As we increase-- as we
go from hour 1 to hour 2, Gordon gets 2 miles closer. So his distance to
school is decreasing. So where was he
at time equals 0? I'll put time equals 0 up here
because I don't have any-- actually, I'll
put it right here. I'll try to squeeze
it into the chart. So where was he
at time equals 0? Well, he would have
been 2 miles further. So he would have
been 6 miles away. Notice that it's consistent. In the first hour,
he would have gotten 2 miles closer to school. Then the next
hour, he would have gotten 2 miles even closer. And then the third hour, he
actually gets 2 miles closer. And he actually gets to school. So Gordon started out 6
miles away at t equals 0. So Gordon did start out farther
from school than Elizabeth. So we can circle Gordon. He meets the conditions. Now let's think about Giovanni. So at time 1, he's 5
miles away from school. Then at 1 hour,
he's 5 miles away. After 2 hours,
he's 6 miles away. So he's getting
further from school. So this is a plus 1. And then after another
hour, he is 7 miles away. So every hour that goes
by, he's a mile further. He's going 1 mile an
hour away from school. So where was he at time equal 0? Well, he would have been
a mile closer to school relative to time equal 1. So he would have
been 4 miles away. So he did not start out
farther than Elizabeth, who started out 5 miles away. Now let's look at Hannah. Hannah, at every time, is
just exactly 5 miles away from school. So she's napping or something. She is not actually moving. She started out napping at
exactly the same distance as Elizabeth, but she did not
start out farther from school than Elizabeth. So Hannah does not
meet the criteria. Now let's look at Alberto. At time equals 1, he
is 9 miles from school. And then after 1 hour, he
gets a mile and 1/2 further from school. After another hour, he gets
a mile and 1/2 even further. So where was he
at time equals 0? Well, he would have been a
mile and 1/2 closer to school. So 9 minus 1.5 is-- he would
have been 7 and 1/2 miles away. So even though he is
going away from-- well, he definitely started further
from school than Elizabeth. Elizabeth started
out 5 miles away. Alberto started off
7 and 1/2 miles away and is going even further
and further and further. So the two students that
start out farther from school than Elizabeth are
Gordon and Alberto.