Choose one of the graphs below and create a story explaining the graph. You must explain which graph you chose, include an appropriate title for the graph, establish an independent and dependent variable (explain in terms of “this depends on this”), and tell a story that relates both variables to the trend shown on the graph. You CANNOT use any previous stories that we have used in our notes or ACE problems. Make this an original story! This posting needs to be REALISTIC and detailed! Check your spelling and grammar. It is VERY possible that this will be a level 2 grade!
Graph #5. In Coppell Texas there always are annual swim races. In this year’s race there will be 5 contestants. Each contestant will have to swim 100 yards in the shortest amount of time possible. Nick a four year runner up has come to take the first place gold medal in this year’s race. On graph 5 the distance around the pool will be on the y axis and the time will be on the x axis. Gaining distance will show increase in trend as the time will keep going on. As nick starts his race he swims very fast for the first couple yards. Nick then gets tired and decides to catch his breath on the side of the pool. Realizing time is still moving Nick decides to go on and this time at a faster pace. Nick ends his race with a gold medal. The reason the distance is on the y axis and not the x axis is because the time is depending on the distance. A reasonable name for this graph could be, Timed Swim across a 100 Yard Pool.
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ReplyDeleteDavid was skating up a hill then when he got to the top he rested for a little then went back down the hill on the other side gradually ginning speed. The speed depends on the height of the hill. Dependent variable is speed independent variable is the hill.
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There is a skateboarder he wants to see how far he can travel in 20seconds riding down two ramps. First the skateboarder drops in on the quarter pipe rides down pretty fast. Halfway through he has to jump off his board because another skater got in his way. When he got back on his board he rode down the second ramp and got his speed back. When the 20seconds was up he had traveled a total of 60feet. The average he traveled per second was 3 feet. The number of feet you travel depends on how much time you have. In this case that would mean your x-axis is time, and your y-axis is distance traveled.
The graph I chose is graph #1. The graph could represent and ice cream stand! The x-axes would be temperature and the y-axes would be how many costumers. So as time moves on towards the afternoon the temperature gets hotter so more people would want to buy more ice cream. So the small line in the beginning is the temperature getting a little bit hotter but then the horizontal line is when the temperature stays the same because the temperature doesn’t really change from 10:00 to 12:00 so many people don’t buy ice cream yet. But when it gets to 12:30pm the temperature gets very hot and a bunch more people ice cream so the big pointy arch in the middle is when the temperature and the number of customers increase. The other horizontal line on the right is from 7:00pm to 10:00pm when not many people buy ice cream. The small line at the end is when the ice cream buying decreases down to no one buying ice cream.
ReplyDeleteFor graph number 5, during a horse race horse # 8 starts out slow. He speeds up just a little but is able to maintain a constant speed for a bit of time. Suddenly, he gets a little slower, but no wait! Towards the last lap horse # 8 speeds up and wins the race! The x axis is laps (independent variable) and the y axis would be time in seconds (dependant variable). An appropriate title would be Time it takes for a Horse to Race.
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At the skate park kids were going to the park because the air was cool. Then the temperature stayed to the same so the number of kids stayed the same. Then after awhile the temperature was starting to get in the 100. So the number of kids at the skate park started to decrease. The number of kids depends on the temperature. The dependent variable is the number of kids, and the independent variable is the temperature. In that case your x-axis is the number of the kids and the y-axis is the temperature.
Title: How much Iphone's sold
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T-mobile and Verizon were having a competition to see who could sell the most Iphone’s and when the Iphone’s first came out the price was really high so not much people bought them. But later the sales people decided to lower the price since not much people are buying. When they lowered it, more people started to buy but late since too many started to buy they ran out in stock! About a week later they got Iphone’s back in stock. Later one a few people found out about that they were back, then the word started spread and soon everybody found it! And at the T-mobile beat Verizon.
Independent: People buying Iphone's
Dependent: Cost of Iphone's
For grapgh number five I am using an example of how many times a girl goes on Facebook every week for a Month. For the Dependent variable it is the time in one month on the y-axis. So for the Independent variable it was the number of times she went on Facebook on the x-axis. In the first two weeks a girl goes on Facebooko 1 time but as the week goes on she gets on facebook 5 times to those two weeks.Then for the next two weeks she goes on facebook once per day. Then For the next week she gose on face book one every day at a very increasing speed.
ReplyDeleteGraph four can best be explained by a rollercoaster ride. A rollercoaster typically goes uphill and downhill throughout at the ride (over a period of time). As time moves on, the speed of the ride fluctuates. The dependent variable would be speed and the independent variable is time. The speed rollercoaster of the dependent on the time of the ride. The graph shows the rollercoaster starts by going downhill (the speed increases) and then it goes uphill (the speed decreases) and keeps repeating.
ReplyDeleteI am choosing graph 5.
ReplyDeleteOne day we were going on a trip to Austin that took us five hours. It took a while to get there but we managed to go a constant speed for about two hours into the trip. Then we got stuck in traffic so we stopped at a restaurant and ate for about an hour to let the traffic die down. Then we took off and put on cruise control the rest of the way there.
The independent variable is the time to get there.
The dependent variable is the speed wwe go.
Graph two describes the number of students in the cafeteria throughout the day. The x axis otherwise known as the Independent variable will be time and Y axis otherwise known as the dependent variable will be number of students. This is because the number of students depends on what time it is. In the morning students come to school a lot of students come in the morning to sit in the cafeteria and wait for school to begin. Then everyone goes to class and it stays the same amount of students then lunch time rolls around and it picks up a lot! The students eat lunch then it goes back down then at the end of the day it decreases.
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ReplyDeleteGraph 3 reminds me of when waiting in a line at the amusement park, while people in the line are waiting the line steadily increases. As the people in front of you are on you wait, then as the next group of people get on the ride the line steadily decreases. The independent variable is the number of people in the line, and the dependent variable is the time waiting in line because the time waiting in line depend on how many people are there before you.
A woman decides to go shopping at the Vista Ridge Mall for her husband’s birthday party which is in three hours! So she first starts out walking really fast going in and out of stores. After forty five minutes she is starving so she takes a brake and gets a meal in the food court. She stays for about thirty minutes then starts to pick up her pace. In forty five more minuets she finally finds the perfect gift for her husband and leaves the mall. This story goes with graph five and a good title for it would be Minuets to Find a Gift for my Husband. The Independent variable would be finding the right gift and the dependent variable would be time because Time is depending on finding the gift for her husband.
ReplyDeleteDan is a truck driver that delivers school supplies to all around Texas. He starts at El Paso, Texas and his destination is Brownsville, Texas school district. It is at least a whole day drive. His drive started out fast early in the morning so there was no traffic, so he was good to go. Then in the middle of now were BOM! All of the tires on the truck popped because of the nails in the road. He was in a complete halt. Then after he checks it out he called his company form a radio from the truck. It took a while for them to get heir so that got him stuck in the middle of know were. After the repair worker finished up he left and Dan was on the road again. He got there just in time 2 days before school starts in Brownsville. He had a successful trip after a night in Brownsville he headed back to El Paso.
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One week it was especially rainy and Tommy wanted to know the height of the creek water behind his house as the week progressed. He decided to title this graph “height of the creek water during rain season” he put height of the water on the y-axis and amount of rain on the x-axis. Because the height of the creek water depends on the amount of rain there is for that week. He got 23in of rain on Monday, 35in on Tuesday, 38 in on Wednesday, 25in on Thursday, 27in on Friday 36 in on Saturday, and 45in on Sunday. He noticed that the graph was increasing rapidly and that the line was more vertical at the beginning of the graph meaning that there was more rain at the beginning of the week, meaning that there was less rain in the middle of the week because the line was more horizontal during the middle, but at the end of the week it started to steadily increase back up again meaning that it was raining more than before and it continued to steadily increase more. This story goes with graph 5.
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ReplyDeleteAt 7:10 a.m., I was on my way to school in a car that my mom was driving. We started off accelerating at a slow rate because cars were passing by my mom’s car. At about 7:13 a.m., we started picking up speed once we got onto the main road. There was traffic so we had to keep a slow, constant speed. At 7:20 a.m., we came across a hill. We lost speed because it was going up. At 7:22 a.m., we reached the top. At 7:23 a.m., we reached the bottom. We went at a faster speed because it was going downhill. We then got on another main road at 7:25 a.m., and then we went the same speed as we did before. Once we got into the school loop, my mom started to slow down so she could stop. I then got out of the car and went into the school at 7:30 a.m.
Graph #4: One day you are at six flags over Texas. You want to ride the Mr. Freeze. After you are done you are to record a graph about the speed and time. At first the ride goes from o mph 70 mph in 2.7 seconds. Then you come up on your first loop so you slow down a little at the top. When you go back down you speed up. Then you go on another loop and you slow down at the top. Then when you go down you speed up. Then you go on the straight up part and you slow down at the tippy top and then you go backwards and do it all over again. So draw the graph showing the time and speed of the Mr. Freeze.
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ReplyDeleteI chose graph#5 because it shows distance traveled over time.
There is a skateboarder he wants to see how far he can travel in 20seconds riding down two ramps. First the skateboarder drops in on the quarter pipe rides down pretty fast. Halfway through he has to jump off his board because another skater got in his way. When he had to jump off his board he took a brief break. After he got back to his board and started riding again he rode down the second ramp and got his speed back. When the 20seconds was up he had traveled a total of 60feet. The average he traveled per second was 3 feet. The distance you travel depends on how much time you have. In this case that would mean your x-axis is time, and your y-axis is distance traveled. The skateboarder might have traveled more distance if he wouldn’t have had to get off his board, and start over again
I chose graph #5. Steven has decided to enter the Annual hotdog eating contest. The rules are you have to eat as many hotdogs as you can in 1 minute. Time would be on the x-axis and number of hotdogs will be on the y-axis because the number of hotdogs eaten will depend on how much time you have. When Steven starts the contest he begins very fast for the first 20 seconds but stops for 10 seconds to drink some water and then starts again getting faster as he realizes time is almost up. He eats 20 hotdogs and ends the contest in second place. The name of the graph could be “Total Number of Hotdogs in 1 minute.”
ReplyDeleteI choose graph 3, I said that graph 3 is like getting a brain freeze, after eating something cold like an ice cream or icy, how long it lasts. The time it takes to get a brain freeze is the independent variable which go’s on the ( x-axis ) and how long it lasts go’s is the dependent variable which is the (y-axis). You get in ice cream cone and u try to eat it all in under one minute. As you start eating and the time passes by then you suddenly get a brain freeze and it last a while then it declines as the rest of the time passes. The graph would look like this the first line is going to be a positive trend (you’re about to get a brain freeze) then the next one is a steady trend so it’s going to look straight ( you have the brain freeze) , last is the brain freeze is going away so it’s going to be a decreasing trend (the brain freeze is going away).
ReplyDeleteI picked graph four to explain what I think happened. I think it was planes at an airport throughout the day. I think this because airplanes come in and out of the airport. Graph four shows this because it shows that there is change which could represent the number of airplanes at the airport. When it shows a negative trend that could represent the planes leaving the airport. Then the positive trend could represent the planes coming in. That is what I think happened on that graph.
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ReplyDeleteThe graph might represent the sea level during high tide and low tide throughout the day. The X-axis would be time of day, and the Y-axis would be average sea level. My independent variable would be the time of day and the dependent variable is the average sea level. The sea level depends on the time of day. In graph 4 the sea level starts at high tide and drops down to low tide at 3 am. High tide and low tide fluctuates during the time of day.
Graph 1: Cameron wants to find out how far Keaton’s house is to and back. every 5 minis Cameron records his deists. So he drives down parkway and stops at a red light. Accelerating quickly so he can drop a gift of and races home but he hast to stop at a red light again and slowly goes home.
ReplyDeleteI chose graph 1. The title of this graph is called The Increase of Height when Pole Vaulting. The two variables are height, and time it takes for the pole vaulter to finish. The time is represented as the dependent variable which is located on the y axis in the graph. The highest point of height from the pole vaulter is represented as the independent variable which is placed on the x axis. The time it takes the pole vaulter to finish depends on the height of how high the pole vaulter gets. First the pole vaulter steps up to the starting point, which is the little diagonal line that slightly increases representing the change of height as he steps up to the point. Then the pole vaulter starts to run, but isn’t increasing height, which is the long horizontal line. Next the pole vaulter pushes himself up and rapidly increases height, which is represented by the very steep line segment. After he reaches his maximum point of height, he quickly falls down, showing the steep line going downward. Next the pole vaulter runs straight to the end of the finish, which is the horizontal line. Lastly, he steps off the pole vaulting track which is the slight line that falls downward as the line represents the drop in height to get off the track.
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ReplyDeleteA family gets a new puppy and a new food bowl for this puppy. Then new puppy is brought home that night and eats about half of his first full bowl. The family goes to sleep seeing that the puppy only ate half that night. The next morning the family sees that the puppy didn’t eat anymore over night. Between about 8am and mid-morning the puppy still doesn’t eat any more food. At mid-morning the mom of the family decides to fill his bowl up all the way. His bowl is still filled all the way until about 5pm when the puppy finally decides to eat, again, only half way. At about 8pm the family checks his bowl and it gradually starts to decrease in food. Eventually, by the end of the night, the puppy ate all of his food.
In this case our independent variable would be the time. The time would go on the x-axis. The dependent variable would be the amount of food in the bowl. This would go on our y-axis. A good title for this graph might be: The amount of Food the New Puppy ate.
I chose graph #5. So Dave is running a marathon from Coppell to Fort Worth in a day. So the day of the marathon Dave gets ready to run. At 8:30 the runners got ready and took off. Dave got up to a fast start on all the runners. Around 10:00 through 10:10 Dave starts to slow down a starts to take a water break. At 1:30 Dave starts to speed back up. Around 5:00 Dave is a few miles away from the finish line. At 5:30 Dave reaches the finish line.
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ReplyDeleteA skate boarder is ridding up a hill at an increasing rate then when he gets to the top he takes a brake then goes down the other side. The speed of the skateboarder depends on the side he goes on.