A tortoise challenged a hare to a 100-meter race on a track. The tortoise negotiated a 50-meter head start with the hare. When the race started the hare was running at a constant speed of 2.8 meters per second and the tortoise was crawling at a speed of 0.5 meters per second. (They both maintained these speeds for the entire race.)   Our goal is to determine who won the race. Read the above problem statement again, then explain in writing on a sheet of paper how you will determine who won the race. Construct a drawing to represent the 100-meter length of the track. Then place the tortoise and hare's starting points on the track. Define the variable t to represent the number of seconds since the start of the race. Write an expression to represent the Tortoise's distance from the starting line in terms of t.    Represent the Hare's distance from the starting line in terms of t.      Write a formula to represent the distance, d (in meters), that the tortoise is ahead of the hare in…

My sister Sarah and I used to have a great time playing with Skittles. First we would place them in groups on a blanket on the living room floor. Then we would pretend that they were rabbits and we were hawks. We would swoop down and eat them up. One time in particular, Sarah got the first shot: She ate 1/4 of the Skittles. I went next, and I ate 1/9 of the ones on the floor. Sarah then let out a shriek and ate 1/3 of the remaining candies. I then ate 3/4 of the ones left. After Sarah ate 1/2 of the remaining Skittles, there were two yellow ones left, which we shared. How many Skittles did each of us eat? Use the working backward strategy

I am a student at U of M flint in a math class. The question is A worm is at the bottom of a 12-foot wall. Every day the worm crawls up 3 feet, but at night slips down 2 feet. How many days does it take the worm to  get to the top of the wall? Draw a diagram to solve the problem