I cut a long piece of wood into 50cm pieces. I manage to cut w pieces of wood, and there is 20cm left over.

How long was the wood to start with?

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Length of Pieces = 50cm

Number of Pieces = w

Left over = 20cm

Required

Determine the length of the wood

Start by multiplying the number of pieces by the length of each pieces

Lastly, add the leftover to get the actual length of the wood

Substitute 50w for Result and 20 for Leftover

Hence, the length of the wood is 50w + 20

0.02040816326

- "runner b is moving at a slower rate."

- "the graphs shown are graphs of distance(km) against time(min).

the slopes of this graphs are are given by:

slope = (change in y)/(change in x)

= (change in distance)/(change in time)

this is the formula for finding the speed. so, the slope of these graphs represent the speed of the runner.

taking each division in the graph to represent 1 on both axis:

runner a ⇒ speed = (2-0)/(1-0)

= 2/1

= 2 km/min

runner b ⇒ speed = (3-0)/(3-0)

= 3/3

= 1 km/min

this shows that   runner b is moving at a slower rate."