This is for a friend. all questions : )

You and a friend race across a field to a fence and back. your friend has a 50-meter head start. the equations shown represent you and your friend's distances dd (in meters) from the fence tt seconds after the race begins. find the time at which you catch up to your friend. you: d=∣−5t+100∣d=∣−5t+100∣ your friend: d=∣−313t+50∣∣

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

Whats are the trickiest steps to do when adding or subtracting rational expressions? how does knowledge of rational numbers u in adding and subtracting rational expressions?