Forest fires grow depending on fuel, heat, and oxygen. Wind can push the fire one way or another.
Let’s assume that our fire from the last slide is growing out from the center into a larger circle, increasing the radius of the circle by 7 miles per hour.
Create a function that tells us the length of the radius in terms of hours allowing for your initial, current radius given on the last slide, and the speed of 7 miles per hour increase.
The function can be defined as follows:
radius_length(hours) = initial_radius + (7 * hours)
This function takes the number of hours as input and returns the length of the radius at that time. It calculates the length of the radius by adding the initial radius to the product of the speed of increase (7 miles per hour) and the number of hours.