Mrs. Montoya, the P.E. teacher, is pairing off students to race against each other.
Lara can run
5
5 meters per second, and Riley can run
7
7 meters per second.
Mrs. Montoya decides to give Lara a head start of
12
12 meters since she runs more slowly.
Set up a system to represent this situation.
Let s represents the number of seconds and let m=total number of meters.
A.)Write an equation to represent Lara's running rate.
B.)Write an equation to represent Riley's running rate.
C.)Riley will catch up to Lara after running
meters in
seconds.
