I’ve been stuck on this for a while now and i can’t get passed it can someone me
a) 5/31 ; your car travels 53 miles every 1 hour
b) 10 ; your car travels for 10 hours
c) 1/53 ; your car travels 53 miles every 1 hour
d) 212 ; your car travels 212 miles

The rate of change, or slope, is exactly what it sounds like: the amount of change in a certain interval of time. It can be defined as

, or

In order to find the slope of an equation, we can use this formula:

     (numbers after variables are subscript)

What this means is that for a certain y value (y2), we subtract the y value before it (y1), and the same for the x. Because the question says "the rate of change is constant," we only need to find this once. In this case, I will use the first 2 data sets in the table:

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Therefore, the answer would be C) ; your car travels 53 miles every 1 hour.

Hope this helps! :)

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