Jacob and jackson are having a fishing competition .each boy adds the lengths of all the fish he catches, and the winner is the one with the greatest total length of fish .the following shows the lengths of fish each boy caught jacob:5 1/2 in 8 1/2 in 6 7/8 in 12 3/4in . Jackson:6 3/4 ,in 5 7/8 in 7 1/8 in 6 3/4 in 5 1/4 in who won the competition and by how much

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?