http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-californias-warmest-year-20140804-story.html
This graph is referring to the record breaking temperatures that have occurred in California in the past seven months that relate to the current drought going on there. This graph allows us to see the record heats/temperatures in California for the past 114 yrs. The graph shows a detailed depiction of the affects of drought on temperature for the past years in California. Although the article focuses mainly on what has happened in the past 65 or so more years, it shows a clear progression of temperatures rising over time.
The temperature beats the record temperature of 59.3 degrees set in 1934 by nearly a full a degree. The drought in the 1970's has long been considered one of the state's worst since records began in 1895-- even the average temperature at 57 degrees during that time period was below the current high. This has caused great distress towards the people, wildlife and agriculture.
The X-axis is represented by the years showing record temperatures and the Y-axis shows the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Red bars depict the record high temperatures that have occurred in California. As depicted, temperature has not been that high since the mid 1930's. For now, we can ignore the record colds and focus more on the hot--red bars. This graph is a function because it has an input and an output, but it is not a linear function because it is not a straight line and more scattered. The input is the year and the output is the record breaking temperature recorded around that certain time. However, this is not a mathematical model because the year does not directly affect how hot it would be.
I'm from California, so it's cool for me to see this graph cause I can remember some of these things! Even though hearing it's warm over there and knowing it's cold over here is rough too ha
ReplyDeletefun topic, anita. i have family from california. you did a good job of explaining your work and what the graphs mean. it would have been good to see some calculations to prove that it is not linear and also you forgot to use function notation when explaining whether the graph was a math model or not.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately, it looks like you did not do the second part of the assignment, which is finding an example of a NON function. :(
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