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Real-Life Graphs: Analysis & Questions

The document contains graphs and questions about various real-life situations that can be represented using graphs, including: eating a chocolate bar over time; Usain Bolt's distance over time in a race; the height of a bungee jumper over time during a jump; the cost of a taxi fare over distance traveled; and the depth of water in a bath over time as it fills. It asks the reader to think of two additional real-life situations that could be represented with graphs and to draw those graphs.

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Real-Life Graphs: Analysis & Questions

The document contains graphs and questions about various real-life situations that can be represented using graphs, including: eating a chocolate bar over time; Usain Bolt's distance over time in a race; the height of a bungee jumper over time during a jump; the cost of a taxi fare over distance traveled; and the depth of water in a bath over time as it fills. It asks the reader to think of two additional real-life situations that could be represented with graphs and to draw those graphs.

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REAL LIFE GRAPHS

Amount of chocolate (g)


150 Eating a bar of chocolate

100

50

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Time (seconds)
a) How much does the bar of chocolate weigh?
b) How much does the chocolate weigh after 5 seconds?
c) How long does it take the for the chocolate bar to be eaten?
d) What is happening between 5 and 8 seconds?

150 Usain Bolts Race


Distance
(metres)

1000

50

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10 11 12
Time
a) How far has he ran after 4.5 seconds? (seconds)
b) How long has it taken Usain to run 130 metres?

Distance to from the floor in metres (h)


c) How far has he ran after 8 seconds?
d) Why does the line go through the origin?

Bungee Jump!

50

1000
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10 11 12
Time in seconds (t)
a) How high is the bungee jump?
b) Why does the graph zig zag?
c) How long is the person falling for until the begin to bounce back up?
d) Why does the person stop at 3 metres and not 0?
e) How long is the person not bouncing but still upside down for?

15 Taxi Journey
Taxi Fare in £ (f)

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10 11 12
Distance in miles (d)
a) Why does the taxi fare not go through the origin?
b) How much does it cost to travel 6 miles?
c) How far can I travel if I only have £10 in my pocket?
d) What does the journey cost after 9 miles? And 11 miles?
e) What does the flat part of the graph mean?
f) What is the equation of the line from 0 to 8 minutes?
g) What is the equation of the line from 8 minutes onwards?
Depth of Water in inches (d)

15 Running a Bath

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10 11 12
Time in minutes (t)
a) How deep is the water after 3 minutes?
b) What is the equation of the line from 0 to 5 minutes?
c) What is happening from 5 minutes onwards?
d) What is the equation of the line from 5 minutes onwards?

QUESTION. THINK OF 2 REAL LIFE SITUATIONS THAT CAN BE REPRESENTED WITH REAL LIFE GRAPHS
AND DRAW THEM

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