A bathtub is filled with 40 gallons of water. The water starts draining out of the tub at a rate of 8 gallons per minute. Choose the sketch of a graph that shows the relationship between the number of minutes since the tub started draining and the number of gallons of water in the tub

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I cannot create sketches as a text-based AI. However, I can describe to you how the graph would look like:

The x-axis represents the number of minutes since the tub started draining, while the y-axis represents the number of gallons of water in the tub.

The graph would start at the point (0, 40) since initially, the tub is filled with 40 gallons of water. The line would then decrease at a constant rate of 8 gallons per minute, forming a straight line with a negative slope.

The correct sketch would show a straight line sloping downwards from left to right, indicating the decreasing amount of water in the tub as time passes.