Question

Pilar and Tom race home from the park. The graph shows how far each person is from home after a given amount of time.

Drag and drop the appropriate symbol to the box to compare the rates of Pilar and Tom.
Pilar's rate Tom's rate
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Answer 1

Answ: >

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Answer 2

Each point in the graph has two coordinates, X and Y, X is the horizontal position (minutes) and Y is the vertical (distance from home). We can see in the plot that both Pilar and Tom started at (0;9.5), however, Pilar arrives at the house (Y=0) after 7 minutes, and Tom after seemingly 9.5 minutes.
So Pilar's Speed (now P) is:
`P=(9.5)/(7)= 1.357 miles /second (aprox)`
And Tom's Speed (now T) is:
`P=(9.5)/(9.5)= 1 miles /second`
Som Pilar's rate is higher than Tom's. S > T