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Question

What is the rate of change for a car that travels 250 miles in 5 hours?

Answer 1

Hi, Jordan,

With the information presented, there is no rate of change, or at least we can't calculate it. If we were told that it was traveling 60 miles/hr at the start, but had gone 100 miles at the end of an hour, then we could calculate a rate of change, since the car had to be doing more than 60 mph.

So the technical answer is: No change, as far as we can tell with what was given.

Bob

Answer 2

Hello Jordan. To solve this problem, we simply divide 250 miles by 5 hours. That will give us our miles per hour (mph), or the rate of change. Rate of change tells us, in this example, how many miles he will be driving per hour.

Therefore,

250 miles/5 hours = 50miles/hour

Answer 3

If this car is traveling 250 miles in 5 hours in order to get the rate of change is simply miles/hours or in word terms miles per hour. You can think of that as the speed or velocity of the car. Thus the Rate of Change would be 250/5 which equals 50 miles per hour.