John can clean an Olympic size swimming pool in 8 hours. Peter can finish the same job in 10 hours. How long will it take if John and Peter will clean an Olympic size swimming pool together?

Carter drank 15.75 gallons of water in 4 weeks. he drank the same amount of water each day. a. estimate how many gallons he drank in one day. b. estimate how many gallons he drank in one week. c. about how many days altogether will it take him to drink 20 gallons?

An architect is designing a water fountain for a park she uses the given function to model the water jet flowing from the fountain nozzles where h(x) gives the height of the water jugs in feet x feet from the starting point h(x)=-1/20x+x+15

How can you tell when x and y are not directly proportional?