PLEASE HELP ASAP Ben participated in a race. During the first half of
the race, he walked 3 miles and ran at a rate of 5
miles
per hour for x hours. During the second
half of the race, he walked for 2 miles and ran at
a rate of 5.5 miles per hour for x hours. What
equation could you write to solve for the number
of hours Ben ran during each half of the race?
Let y represent the number of miles in half the
race. Write two equations, one for the first half of
the race and one for the second half. How could
you transform these two equations to be the
same as the original equation you wrote to solve
for x? What do you think this means about
solving for the variables in a situation
represented by two equations?

Time (minutes) amount of water (gallons) practice 1. jin fills up a 510-gallon pool in the backyard for her children. she fills it with the garden hose at a rate of 17 gallons per minute. after it is filled, she lets it sit for 30 minutes in order to let the water temperature rise. the children then get in and have fun for an hour. the pool loses about 5 gallon of water each minute due to their splashing and playing. at the end of the hour, they tear the pool while getting out, which causes a leak the pool then begins to lose water at a rate of 2 gallons per minute. a. complete the table to show the amount of water in the pool after each minute. b. create a graph to model the problem situation. include when the pool will be empty. c. write a piecewise function that models this problem situation. explain your reasoning for each piece of the function. d. identify the x- and y-intercept. explain what they mean in terms of the problem situation, atamantha a cul 80 100 120 150 200 ning, inc