Question

On an airplane flight, Steve watched a display that showed the number of minutes since the flight took off and the number of miles away from the destination. He recorded various points and fit the line y = 2,426 – 8x to the data, where x is the number of minutes flying and y is the number of miles from the destination. According to the model, how far was Steve from his destination after 120 minutes of flying?​

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A 960 miles​

B 1,466 miles​

C 2,410 miles​

D 3,386 miles​




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Answer 1

you would first plug the 120 minutes into the x’s position, bc the x represents the # of minutes flying as said, so your equation would be “y=2,426 - 8(120)”, now we follow PEMDAS and multiply first, leaving our equation to “y=2,426 - 960”, now subtract and youll be left with “y=1,466” , so B :)