Question

After knee surgery, your trainer tells you to return to your jogging program slowly. He suggests you start by jogging for 14 minutes each day. Each week after, he suggests that you increase your daily jogging time by 7 minutes. Write a y= rule to represent this scenario. y = ____

Answer 1

Let the time for jogging be on y axis and number of weeks be on x axis.

Express the general equation of the line,

y=mx+c.

Here, m is slope and c is y intersept.

Given that, you start by jogging for 14 minutes each day. So, c is 14.

Also, given that you increase your jogging time by 7 minutes implies,

m=7.

Therefore, the equation is,

`y=7x+14`