DIG DEEPER You and a friend start riding bikes toward each other from opposite ends of a 24-mile biking route. You ride 2 miles every 4 hour.
Your friend rides 7
miles per hour.
a. After how many hours do you meet?

1.5 hours

I traveled farther

2 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

My speed

Speed of my friend

Time passed for both me and my friend will be equal if we start at the same time and the combined distance covered by both of us will be 24 miles. Let  be the time taken to meet

So, we meet each other after 1.5 hours.

Distance traveled by me

Distance traveled by my friend

the height of the surface increases from the center out to the sides of the road.

step-by-step explanation:

as we move out we move away from the x-axis.

and as mentioned in the problem statement that height of a road increases when we move away from the center x.

hence proved that 3rd option

the height of the surface increases from the center out to the sides of the road.

is the correct option.