Question

On a bicycle, Monique started 2 miles from her house, and rides 9 miles per hour away from her house. Write an equation to model this situation (use m for miles and h for hours)

Answer 1

Answer:
`m=9h+2`

Explanation:

The equation of the line in Slope-Intercept form is:

`y=ax+b`

Where "a" is the slope and "b" is the y-intercept.

For this case, let be "m" the distance in miles and "h" the time in hours.

According to the information given in the exercise, Monique started 2 miles from her house and she rides 9 miles per hour away from her house. Based on this, we can write the following linear equation in Slope-Intercept form to model this situation:

`m=9h+2`

We can identify that the slope and the y-intercept are:

`a=9\\\\b=2`