Last monday, two law students met up at café literatura after school to read the pages they were assigned in the legal methods class. alejandro can read 1 page per minute, and he has read 28 pages so far. carly, who has a reading speed of 2 pages per minute has read 12 pages so far.

part a: define the variables and write two equations to represent the number of pages that each student read.

variables:

alejandro:

carly:

Step-by-step explanation:

Variables:

let x be the number of minutes

let y be the total number of pages read

Use the form y = mx + b

"b" is irrelevant in this context because the initial value is 0 (they have not read it before or it is not given)

m is the rate, how fast they can read, how many pages each minute

Alejandro:

28 = 1x   <=Simplify because any number multiplied by 1 is itself.

28 = x

Carly:

12 = 2x

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)

answer: haha (: i’ll go see what it is

step-by-step explanation: