Question
Marjam has a goal of taking at least 10,000 steps today. According to her pedometer, she got 2,500 steps in the morning. There are 10 hours left in the day. How many steps will she need to get each hour (assume she walks the same number of steps each hour) for the rest of the day to meet her goal? Solve this problem. Which graph most clearly communicates the solution?(1 point)
To find out how many steps Marjam will need to get each hour for the rest of the day to meet her goal, we first need to determine how many steps she has left.
Since Marjam's goal is at least 10,000 steps and she already got 2,500 steps in the morning, she has 10,000 - 2,500 = 7,500 steps left to reach her goal.
Since there are 10 hours left in the day, Marjam will need to get 7,500 / 10 = 750 steps each hour to meet her goal.
Therefore, Marjam will need to get 750 steps per hour for the rest of the day to meet her goal.
Out of the given options, a line graph would most clearly communicate the solution, with the x-axis representing the hours and the y-axis representing the number of steps. This graph would show a line starting at 2,500 (since Marjam got 2,500 steps in the morning) and increasing by 750 each hour until it reaches or surpasses 10,000 steps.