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A submarine dove from the surface at a rate of 50 meters per minute. It is now at a depth of 450 meters. Write a numeric equation using negatives to show the number of minutes it took to get to the current depth.

User Henk Mollema
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Step-by-step explanation

Step1

let


\begin{gathered} \text{rate}=-50\frac{mt}{\text{sec}} \\ \text{rate}=\frac{dis\tan ce}{\text{time}} \end{gathered}
\begin{gathered} y_1=initial\text{ position=0} \\ y_2=\text{ final positivion=-50} \\ \text{time}=\text{ 1 minute} \end{gathered}

Step 2

equation


\begin{gathered} time=\text{ }\frac{\text{distance}}{-50}\text{ Equation(1)} \\ \\ \text{replacing} \\ \text{time}=\frac{-450\text{ mt}}{-50\text{ }(mt)/(\min)} \\ \text{time}=9\text{ minutes} \end{gathered}

I hope this helps you

A submarine dove from the surface at a rate of 50 meters per minute. It is now at-example-1
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