Question

Sara drops a tennis ball and lets it bounce. She records the height of the ball after each of its bounces as an ordered pair, where x represents the number of bounces and y represents the height of the ball. Select all the terms that correctly describe the graph

Answer 1

A) See below

B) It is nonlinear and it is a function

Explanation:

A) Go along the bottom and find 1, then go straight up to 8 and plot a point. Then go along the bottom and find 2, then go straight up to 6 and plot the second point. Go along the bottom to 3 and go straight up to 2 and plot the third point. Lastly, go along the bottom to 4 and go up one and plot a point.

You will see that you graph is not a straight line, so it is nonlinear.

It is a function because every input (x) value, has only one output (y) value.