Help needed! I'm kind of stuck on this question for the 9th-grade Physical Science Ionic/Covalent Bonding question.

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neon is a stable atom, thus, it’s valence shell is filled (8 electrons on the outermost shell), which is why it’s in group 8 (also referred to as group 0 or 18) which is the group for noble gases

since neon has 8 electrons in the outermost shell it doesn’t need any more electrons, thus, neon doesn’t need to react (and anyway can’t react) with any element.

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when jerome paddle in flowing river towards east the net speed of jerome will increase

so the net speed of jerome will be given as

now the speed of paul will be same as it is given as he is running on the ground

so

so here we can say since the speed of jerome is more so he will win the race

now as we know the distance so the time difference is given as

so jerome will reach first and the time difference will be 203.55 s or 3.4 min