Liam and Harper are racing on a track. Liam runs 4 miles per hour and gets a 0.25 mile head start. Harper runs 0.5 miles per hour faster than Liam. If Harper and Liam run the same distance, how many hours do they run?

Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 25 ft3/min, and its coarseness is such that it forms a pile in the shape of a cone whose base diameter and height are always equal. how fast is the height of the pile increasing when the pile is 14 ft high? (round your answer to two decimal places.) ft/min