Joslyn is training for a marathon. Her most recent run took her 1.5 hours to go 12 miles. If she keeps this rate graph the relationship to show what her distance and times would be.

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

How is working backward similar to solving an equation?

Two variables, x and y, vary inversely, and x=12 when y=4. what is the value of y when x=3?