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The grade of a hill is its steepness represented as a percent. Jin tracks his walking speed up different hills. What does the rate of change, or slope,

represent in this situation?


Sagot :

Answer: The rate represents a decrease in speed for each 1% grade increases.

Step-by-step explanation:

You can use the fact that normal slope is measurement of how much the height changes as we walk on the ground for a unit distance forward. And that percent calculates everything compared to 100 parts.

The rate of change or slope, in this situation tells that if we walk 100 units horizontally, then the slope percent gives us the amount of height increased compared to height before walking 100 units.

How to find the percentage from the total value?

Suppose the value of which a thing is expressed in percentage is "a'

Suppose the percent that considered thing is of "a" is b%

Then since percent shows per 100 (since cent means 100), thus we will first divide the whole part in 100 parts and then we multiply it with b so that we collect b items per 100 items(that is exactly what b per cent means).

Thus, that thing in number is

[tex]\dfrac{a}{100} \times b[/tex]

How to measure the rate of change of something as some other value changes?

Suppose that we have to measure the rate of change of y as x changes, then we have:

[tex]Rate = \dfrac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 - x_1}[/tex]

where we have

[tex]\rm when \: x=x_1, y = y_1\\when\: x = x_2, y= y_2[/tex]

Remember that, we divide by the change in independent variable so that we get some idea of how much the dependent quantity changes as we change the independent quantity by 1 unit.

(5 change per 3 unit can be rewritten as 5/3 change per 1 unit)

Converting rate of change or slope to percentage

(where dependent variable is height and the independent variable is the distance walked horizontally)

Slope percent  = [tex]Slope \times 100[/tex] = [tex]\dfrac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 - x_1} \times 100[/tex]

This, shows that, if we walk 100 units horizontally, then the slope percent gives us the amount of height increased.

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