Slopes & Functions

This week in science we worked on finding slopes and writing functions. If a man is walking at 4 meters in every 2 seconds and he starts at 0 for position, where will he be after 10 seconds. The slope would be position over time, so 4/2 and the slope (or speed) is 2 meters per second.The function to answer the question would be x(t)=2(m/s)*t. To solve it you put in 10 for t. x(t)=2(m/s)*10. The answer for x would be 20. So, at 10 seconds the man would be at 20 meters.