Question

1. choose the best story for the graph below.

a. camile walks up a hill and then rests at the
top.
b. tamika runs to the park and then walks
home.
c. a car accelerates, then drives at constant
speed.

Explanation:

The graph shows a distance - time graph where the distance first increases linearly (which represents moving at a constant speed or a steady rate of covering distance) and then becomes constant (which represents no change in distance, i.e., resting or staying at a place).

• Option A: Camile walks up a hill (distance increases as she moves up the hill) and then rests at the top (distance remains constant as she is not moving further). This matches the graph.
• Option B: If Tamika runs to the park and then walks home, the distance should first increase (running to the park) and then decrease (walking home), but the graph has a constant part after the increase, not a decrease. So this does not match.
• Option C: A car accelerating and then driving at a constant speed. The graph of distance - time for a car accelerating would be a curve (since acceleration means changing speed, so the rate of change of distance is changing) and then a straight line (constant speed). But the first part of the given graph is a straight line (constant speed), not a curve (acceleration). So this does not match.

Answer:

A. Camile walks up a hill and then rests at the top.