The two graphs below depict the same journey along a straight road.
- What’s the same and what’s different about the graphs?
- What do you think the labels on the each of the axes would be?
![Curve increases to 8, stays roughly constant, then increases to 16.](/introducing-calculus/discussing-distance/images/graph-distance.png)
![Curve increases to 8, stays roughly constant, then decreases to 0.](/introducing-calculus/discussing-distance/images/graph-displacement.png)
The two graphs below depict the same journey along a straight road.