Juan and Rita both rode bicycles from the park to Main Street. The graphs below represent the time and distance for each student’s ride. Who rode more slowly? Justify your answer.

Question

Juan and Rita both rode bicycles from the park to Main Street. The graphs below represent the time and distance for each student’s ride. Who rode more slowly? Justify your answer.

A coordinate graph for Rita is shown.The horizontal axis is labeled Time in minutes and is scaled from 0 to 20 by 2.
The vertical axis is labeled Distance in blocks and is scaled from 0 to 10 by 1.
There are points at left parenthesis 0 comma 0 right parenthesis, left parenthesis 2 comma 2 right parenthesis, left parenthesis 4 comma 4 right parenthesis, left parenthesis 6 comma 6 right parenthesis, and left parenthesis 8 comma 8 right parenthesis connected by line segments. A coordinate graph for Juan is shown.

Answer 1

Without seeing the graph for Juan, it is impossible to determine who rode more slowly. The graphs would need to be compared side by side to determine which student had a steeper slope or covered less distance in the same amount of time.