In the coming year, a vehicle manufacturer has decided to manufacture 150 vehicles per day. The function v = 150d represents the company’s production for the coming year, v, with respect to the number of days, d. The rate of change of the function representing the number of vehicles manufactured for the coming year is
, and its graph is a
. So, the function is a
function.

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?