Question

ty'sheena had always heard that during a thunderstorm you can count the number of seconds between seeing the lighting and hearing the thunder. for every 4 seconds counted, the storm is a mile away. which table shows the correct relationship between the number of seconds counted and the distance of the thunderstorm?

Answer 1

Table a

Step-by-step explanation

We know that for every 4 seconds, the storm is 1 mile away. If x is the number of seconds and y is the distance in miles of the storm, then the relationship between these variables is,

`y=(1)/(4)x`

We can check that when x = 4 seconds, y = 1 mile.

Now we have to see which one of these tables corresponds with this equation. To do so, we have to divide each value of x by 4 and see if the result is the corresponding value of y in the table.

After doing this, the only table that meets this requirement is table a,

`\begin{gathered} (16)/(4)=4 \\ \\ (20)/(4)=5 \\ \\ (24)/(4)=6 \\ \\ (32)/(4)=8 \\ \\ (52)/(4)=13 \end{gathered}`