Amir drove from Jerusalem to the lowest place on Earth, the Dead Sea. His altitude relative to sea level (in meters) as a function of time (in minutes) is graphed.   The first and fourth quadrants of a coordinate plane. The horizontal axis is from zero to seventy-two with a scale of eight and is titled Time in minutes. The vertical axis is from negative four hundred to four hundred eighty with a scale of eighty and is titled Altitude in meters. The graph of the line is y equals negative eleven x plus four hundred forty. How fast did Amir descend

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Amir drove from Jerusalem to the lowest place on Earth, the Dead Sea.
His altitude relative to sea level (in meters) as a function of time (in minutes) is graphed.
 
The first and fourth quadrants of a coordinate plane. The horizontal axis is from zero to seventy-two with a scale of eight and is titled Time in minutes. The vertical axis is from negative four hundred to four hundred eighty with a scale of eighty and is titled Altitude in meters. The graph of the line is y equals negative eleven x plus four hundred forty.
How fast did Amir descend?
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Choose 1 answer:
  • (Choice A)
    A
     
    40 meters per minute
  • (Choice B)
    B
     
    20 meters per minute
  • (Choice C)
    C
     
    10meters per minute
  • (Choice D)
    D
     
    11 meters per minute
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