Question

QUICKLY!!!! A paper airplane was thrown from the top of a tall building.The height of the paper airplane above the ground can be found using the function `y=-1.5x+60` , where `x` is the time in seconds the airplane has been in the air.
Jayden made this table to figure out how high the plane was at different times.
0 | 60
10 | 45
20 | 30
30 | 15
40 | 0


How would the equation `y=-1.5x+60` change if the height at 0 seconds was 75?

Answer 1

Answer:

y = -1.5x + 75

Step-by-step explanation:

Well, the rate at which the plane falls doesn't change, so anything attached to the time variable remains constant.

In this case, the first part of the function (-1.5x) remains the same.

Since the height of the tall building was 60 and the value in the equation, we can see that the last value corresponds to the number of meters above ground.

Since the height has changed to 75, the last part of the equation (60) changes to 75, and the rest remains constant.

That gives us the following equation: y = -1.5x + 75