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Telling a Story With Graphs. Task. Each of the following graphs tells a story about some aspect of the weather: temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit), solar radiation (in watts per square meters), and cumulative rainfall (in inches)) measured by sensors in Santa Rosa, CA in February 2012. Note that the vertical gridlines represent the start of the day whose date is given.
1.8.7 Distance-time graphs: a mathematical story. Distance-time graphs are a means of replacing a description given in words by a mathematical description of the same event. What follows is a narrative account: that is, a description in the form of story about a bicycle ride. Read the story and then think about how you would use this account to produce a mathematical model of the ride in the form of a distance-time graph.