8. The table given below shows the number of miles that Robert has been running over some of the past 8 weeks.
Week 1 2
Miles 56.5
3 5 8
8 11 15.5
The number of miles that he runs per week can be represented as a linear function.
What would be the rate of change of this function in miles per week? Use / to
represent a fraction.

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.