Mario rides his scooter to work each day. He is able to travel 0.5 miles per

Question

He lives 4.7 miles from work.
minute.
a. Copy the table and fill in Mario's distance to work based on the number
of minutes traveled. Continue the table until he has arrived at work.
b. What is the rate of change in this situation?
c. How long (to the nearest second) will it take for Mario to get to work?
Explain how you arrived at your answer.
Minutes
Traveled
0
1
Distance to
Work
4.7

Answer 1

a.

Minutes | Distance to Work
0 | 4.7 miles
1 | 4.2 miles
2 | 3.7 miles
3 | 3.2 miles
4 | 2.7 miles
5 | 2.2 miles
6 | 1.7 miles
7 | 1.2 miles
8 | 0.7 miles
9 | 0.2 miles
10 | Arrived at work

b. The rate of change in this situation is 0.5 miles per minute.

c. To find out how long it will take for Mario to get to work, we need to find the number of minutes it takes for him to travel the distance of 4.7 miles.

Using the rate of change of 0.5 miles per minute, we can set up the proportion:

0.5 miles / 1 minute = 4.7 miles / x minutes

Cross multiplying and solving for x, we get:

0.5x = 4.7
x = 4.7 / 0.5
x = 9.4 minutes

Therefore, it will take Mario approximately 9.4 minutes to get to work.