Last year, Joshua’s tomato plant reached a maximum amount of 2 feet. He is growing another tomato plant this year, and he is tracking its growth. The plants today is 10 inches, and it grows 1.7 inches a day determine the initial value in the rate of in this following description.

Answer 1

The initial value in this scenario is the starting height of the tomato plant before it started growing at a rate of 1.7 inches per day.

To find the initial value, we can subtract the current height of the plant (10 inches) from the maximum height reached by the previous plant (2 feet = 24 inches).

Initial value = 24 inches - 10 inches = 14 inches

Therefore, the initial height of Joshua's tomato plant before it started growing at a rate of 1.7 inches per day was 14 inches.