Question

Mary walks to her garage. The distance to the garage as a function of time is shown in this graph

A. Mary starts 8 meters from the garage.

B. Mary walks 8 meters every 4 seconds.

C. Mary arrives at the garage after 4 seconds.

D. Mary walks at a speed of 2 meters per second.

Answer 1

d

Explanation:

so if you look at the bottom left corner you can see 1 box is the same as saying for every second someone walks its one metre.

thats not how i got the answer though.

if you look at the starting point at 8 because she was 8 meters away you need to see when she comes across her first second which after 2 meters (Goes down two squares before reaching the first second)

now technically soe of the other answers are correct too but heres how i thought about it.

A. its correct but i dont think that's what its asking you for tbh

B. This we don't know for sure. eg she could take 890 seconds walking back to her starting point we just don't know for sure.

C. This is also true but once again it's easily given to you so i dont think that's what you're being asked.

D. This is the only option where you had to do any for of working out because s=d/t so s=8/4=2m/s