Question

Mr. Haas drives his son to school in themorning and then comes back home. Hestays home until he has to go to pick up hisson from school, and then they both returnhome again. Which graph best shows thesituation?

Answer 1

Graph A

Explanation:

Mr. Hass leaves home (i.e. where the distance=0) and drives his son to school in the morning then returns home.

The same situation is repeated in the afternoon.

From the graph:

• Point A is when he left home in the morning

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• Point B is when he lreturned home in the morning

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• Point C is when he left home in the afternoon.

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• Point D is when he returned home in the afternoon.

This means that we will have two similar movements on the graph.

From the given graphs, the graph that best shows the situation is Graph A.