Question

Sheleah and her family are planning a trip from Los Angeles, California to Melbourne, Australia. While booking her family's plane tickets, she notices on the itinerary that the airline is offering a sixteen hour straight flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne on a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Jet. In an effort to learn more about the capabilities of the Jet, Sheleah does a little research and stumbles upon the following graph and facts about the Jet's gasoline consumption.

The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Jet can carry approximately 422,000 gallons of gasoline, making it possible for the jet to travel 14,430 kilometers before needing to refuel.

Create a linear model that represents the amount of gasoline on the plane, in gallons, as a function of the flight time, in hours.

Answer 1

The average is exactly 26,375 gallons of gas per hour. How I found this is buy subtracting each numbers like 422,000 - 369,250 = 52,750. 369,250 - 316,500 = 52, 750 and so on. They all ended up being 52,750, but then I realized that they are all 2 hours apart and the question asks of gallons of gas per 1 hour so then I divided 52,750 in half and got my final answer, 26,375.

Explanation:

This is how much gas the jet uses per 1 hour

my question doesn't ask me to create a linear model but it asks for gasoline per hour, and it's just like this question with the same graph so if you have the same as me this is the answer.

I hope this helps