You are riding your bike at a constant speed of 30 feet per second. A friend uses a stopwatch to time you as you are riding along a city block that is 240 feet long.
1. Make a table to represent the situation where the independent variable is time and the dependent variable is distance traveled.
Time(seconds) distanced traveled (feet)
1 30
2 60
3 90
4 120
5 150
6 180
7 210
8 240
Is my table correct?
2. Make a table to represent the situation where the independent variable is time and the dependent variable is the speed.
For this question I'm wondering if the table would be the same answer as the first one.
Column two would be 30 all the way down. It is connstant
Wait, for the first one or the second one?
1. Yes, your table is correct. To create the table, you calculated the distance traveled at different time intervals by multiplying the constant speed of 30 feet per second by the respective time value.
2. The table representing the situation where the independent variable is time and the dependent variable is the speed would be different from the first table. In this case, the speed remains constant at 30 feet per second throughout the entire ride. Therefore, the table would look like this:
Time(seconds) Speed (feet per second)
1 30
2 30
3 30
4 30
5 30
6 30
7 30
8 30
Note that the values in this table remain the same for all time intervals since the speed does not change.