Question

Jackson rides his bike from his home for 30 minutes at a fast pace. He stops to rest for 20 minutes, and then continues riding in the same direction at a slower pace for 30 more minutes. Sketch a graph of the relationship of Jackson’s distance from home over time.

Answer 1

For the first 30 minutes, we will have a line with a given steepness, this will represent the 30 minutes riding at a fast pace.

Then he stops for 20 minutes, we will represent this with a constant line.

Then he again moves for another 30 minutes, but with a slower pace than in the first 30 minutes, then this line will be less steep than the first line.

A sketch of this situation can be seen below.