a tortoise and a hare are "running" in a race.you are asked to prepare graphs similar to those in your reading material to graph the process of each animal during the race.as in text,distance is the vertical scale of your graph and time is the horizontal scale.the tortoise keeps crawling at a constant rate without stopping.however,because the hare is so confident that he will win,every once in a while he stops hopping and waits for the tortoise to almost catch up,then he starts haopping again.during the time that the hare is stopped,what is the slope of his line on your graph?

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To prepare graphs for the race, we'll have distance on the vertical scale and time on the horizontal scale. Let's first create the graph for the tortoise's progress.

Graph for Tortoise:
- The tortoise crawls at a constant rate without stopping, so the graph would show a steady increase in distance over time.
- The line for the tortoise will have a positive slope, indicating its consistent rate of crawling.

Now, let's create the graph for the hare's progress.

Graph for Hare:
- The hare stops hopping and waits for the tortoise to almost catch up before starting to hop again.
- When the hare is stopped, its distance doesn't increase, resulting in a horizontal line on the graph.
- This means that during the time the hare is stopped, the slope of its line on the graph is zero.

In summary, when the hare is stopped, the slope of its line on the graph is zero.

To graph the process of each animal during the race, we need to plot distance on the vertical scale and time on the horizontal scale.

Since the tortoise crawls at a constant rate without stopping, its line on the graph will be a straight line with a positive slope. The slope represents the rate at which the tortoise moves, which remains constant throughout the race.

On the other hand, the hare periodically stops hopping and waits for the tortoise to almost catch up before starting to hop again. During the time that the hare is stopped, its line on the graph will be a horizontal line because the distance remains constant. A horizontal line indicates that there is no change in the vertical axis (distance) with respect to the horizontal axis (time).

Therefore, the slope of the hare's line during the time it is stopped is 0.