Write a system of equations to describe the situation below, solve using substitution, and fill in the blanks.
A couple of friends decide to race each other. Zane can run 6 meters per second, whereas
Mary can run 8 meters per second. Because he is slower, Zane also gets a head start of 26
meters. Shortly after they start running, Mary will catch up to Zane. How long will that take?
How far will Mary have to run?
It will take
seconds for Mary to run
meters and catch up to Zane.

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.