Question

Mariah rides her bike every day. The function y 8.75z represents the distance traveled, y, after x hours. At this rate, how long will it take Mariah to travel 36.75 miles? (1 point

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GPT-4o mini
To find out how long it will take Mariah to travel 36.75 miles given the function \( y = 8.75z \), where \( y \) represents the distance traveled and \( z \) represents the time in hours, we can set \( y \) to 36.75 miles and solve for \( z \).

Starting with the equation:

\[
y = 8.75z
\]

We substitute \( y \) with 36.75 miles:

\[
36.75 = 8.75z
\]

Next, we can solve for \( z \) by dividing both sides by 8.75:

\[
z = \frac{36.75}{8.75}
\]

Calculating that gives:

\[
z = 4.2
\]

So it will take Mariah **4.2 hours** to travel 36.75 miles.