Question

1. people get energy from the food they eat. this energy is measured in calories. when you exercise, you use up or burn calories. the picture shows about how many calories a 120-pound person burns each minute bowling. how many calories does a 120-pound person burn in 3 hours of bowling?

about 720 calories.

1. use the information from problem 3 to write an equation representing the number of calories burned each minute while bowling. let t represent the number of minutes a 120-pound person bowls. let c represent the number of calories burned.

(use the operation symbols in the math palette as needed. type an equation. use integers or decimals for any numbers in the equation.)

Explanation:

Step1: Find calories burned per minute

From problem 3, in 3 hours (which is \(3\times60 = 180\) minutes), 720 calories are burned. So calories per minute \(=\frac{720}{180}=4\).

Step2: Write the equation

The number of calories \(c\) burned is equal to calories per minute times the number of minutes \(t\). So \(c = 4t\).

Answer:

\(c = 4t\)