There is a graph and on the right hand side it has numbers going up from 0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70 these numbers represent Time (days)
on the bottom it has 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 which represents Time (weeks)
The math question is what is a real life relationship that might be described by the graph?
Can anyone help me on this please? I am not sure how to describe this.
weeks = days/7
Ok. So also another way then to describe would be how many weeks are in days? Would this be correct as well?
since the horizontal axis is weeks, that is usually the independent variable.
So, I'd say the graph represents how many days are in a given number of weeks.
days = 7*weeks
The graph represents time in days on the right-hand side and time in weeks on the bottom. To find a real-life relationship that might be described by this graph, we need to think about situations where something changes or grows over time.
One possible relationship that might be described by this graph is the growth of a plant or a garden. Suppose we are tracking the height of a plant over time. The days could represent the number of days since the plant was planted, and the weeks could represent the number of weeks since the plant was planted.
In this case, the numbers on the right-hand side of the graph would represent the height of the plant in centimeters or inches, and the numbers on the bottom would represent the number of weeks since the plant was planted.
As time passes, the plant grows taller, so the height of the plant increases. The graph would show a positive slope, indicating that as time (both in days and weeks) increases, the height of the plant also increases.
Keep in mind that this is just one possible relationship that could be described by the graph. There may be other scenarios or relationships that could fit as well.