A plane that carries mail makes a round trip each day from Chicago to New York. It makes 1 intermediate stop on the way to New York and 1 intermediate stop on the way back to Chicago. Suppose you make a graph of the altitude of the plane for one day, with time on the horizontal axis and altitude on the vertical axis. How many times will the graph touch the horizontal axis?

5

7

4

2

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Carlie Schmitt

Mathematics

26 April, 10:41

A plane that carries mail makes a round trip each day from Chicago to New York. It makes 1 intermediate stop on the way to New York and 1 intermediate stop on the way back to Chicago. Suppose you make a graph of the altitude of the plane for one day, with time on the horizontal axis and altitude on the vertical axis. How many times will the graph touch the horizontal axis?

5

7

4

2

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Penelope Downs · Answer 1

The graph will touch the horizontal x each time the altitude is zero.

Tha happens: 1st in Chicago before taking off, 2nd, in the intermediate place before getting to NY, 3rd in NY, 4th in the intermediate place before getting to Ch, and 5th when arrives to Ch.

Then the answer is 5.