Anatomy of a Hurricane How can you use linear equations to model important characteristics of hurricanes?
How accurate are these models in predicting a hurricane's behavior?
Researchers collect data from a storm as it grows in strength and becomes a hurricane.
By analyzing the data, researchers discover that they can model the speed of the wind
from the storm with the equation y = x + 21. In this equation, x represents the number
of hours that researchers have been monitoring the storm, and y represents the maximum
wind speed (in miles per hour) in the storm. Use this equation to answer the following
questions about the storm.