Quiz about Slope Real World

Question 1

What is the meaning of the slope in the context of the problem?

Accepted Answer

The pool water is increasing in 3 gallons per minute.

Answer

The pool water is decreasing in 3 gallons per minute.

Answer

The time for the pool water to increase is 3 minutes.

Answer

The time for the pool water to decrease is 3 minutes.

Question 2

What is the meaning of the slope in the context of the problem?

Accepted Answer

Sharon's babysitting income increases by $4 per hour.

Answer

Sharon's babysitting income increases by $20 per hour.

Answer

Sharon's babysitting income decreases by $4 per hour.

Answer

Sharon's babysitting income increases by $5 per hour.

Question 3

Lonnie plans to join the gym. He must pay a $35 membership fee. He will then pay $5 each month. What is the slope?

Accepted Answer

5

Answer

7

Answer

35

Answer

1/7

Question 4

Which of the following equations is in slope-intercept form for this example?

A moving truck costs 40 dollars to rent and an additional 15 dollars for every 10 miles it is driven.

Accepted Answer

$$y=\frac{3}{2}x+40$$

Answer

$$40=10x+15y$$

Answer

$$y=10x+15$$

Answer

$$y=\frac{3}{2}x$$

Question 5

Find the rate of change.

Accepted Answer

-2 gallons per minute

Answer

-2 minutes per gallon

Answer

-20 minutes per gallon

Answer

-20 gallons per minute

Question 6

In the equation y=mx+b, what does the m represent?

Accepted Answer

slope

Answer

y-intercept

Answer

linear

Answer

point-slope

Question 7

Which runner was faster?

Accepted Answer

Runner B

Answer

Runner A

Question 8

Paul the plumber charges $25 for a service call. He then charges $100 an hour. Write a linear equation to model this situation.

Accepted Answer

y = 100x + 25

Answer

y = 100x

Answer

y = 25x

Answer

y = 25x + 100

Question 9

Which statement matches the graph?

Accepted Answer

Taylor can write 25 words per minute

Answer

Taylor can write 6 words per minute

Answer

Taylor can write 50 words per minute

Answer

Taylor can write 150 words per minute

Question 10

Charlie rented a moving truck. He paid a daily fee plus a per-mile fee to rent the truck. The equation below represents the daily amount Charlie paid for the truck if he drives it x miles.
y=0.5x+10
What does the slope of the graph of this equation represent?

Accepted Answer

The per-mile fee for the moving truck

Answer

The daily fee for the moving truck

Answer

How much Charlie paid for the truck

Answer

The number of miles he drove

Question 11

The on-call nurse works x hours and charges her patients y dollars for her in-home services based on the equation y = 50x + 25. What is the slope in the equation?

Accepted Answer

50 dollars per hour

Answer

25 dollars per hour

Answer

25 hours per dollar

Answer

50 hours per dollar

Question 12

Alan just accepted a job at a new company where he will make an annual salary of $61,000. Alan was told that for each year he stays with the company, he will be given a salary raise of $1,500.

What is the slope/rate of change?

Accepted Answer

1,500

Answer

61,000

Answer

-61,000

Answer

-1,500

Question 13

Ruby is driving on a long road trip. She currently has 14 gallons of gas in her car. Each hour that she drives, her car uses up 0.75 gallons of gas.

What is the slope?

Accepted Answer

-0.75

Answer

14

Answer

0.75

Answer

-14

Question 14

What is the place or object you can see that uses slope to be effective?

Accepted Answer

Waling up a staircase

Answer

Eating Breakfast

Answer

Watching TikTok

Answer

Typing words

Question 15

Explain how a ski slope is an example of slope in the real world.

Accepted Answer

The incline or steepness of the terrain that skiers navigate down.

Answer

The color of the snow on the slope

Answer

The temperature of the air on the slope

Answer

The number of skiers on the slope

Question 16

In what way does a water slide demonstrate the concept of slope?

Accepted Answer

The angle of the slide affects the speed and direction of the water flow.

Answer

The color of the slide affects the speed and direction of the water flow.

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The length of the slide affects the speed and direction of the water flow.

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The material of the slide affects the speed and direction of the water flow.

Question 17

How does a playground slide make use of slope?

Accepted Answer

The playground slide makes use of slope by having a downward incline.

Answer

The playground slide makes use of slope by having an upward incline.

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The playground slide makes use of slope by being completely flat.

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The playground slide makes use of slope by having a sideways incline.

Question 18

In what way does a roller coaster track demonstrate the concept of slope?

Accepted Answer

The speed of the roller coaster

Answer

The number of people on the roller coaster

Answer

The color of the track

Answer

How long the wait-lines must be

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