You and your best friend are both on the swim team. you want to beat your friend at the next swim meet so you decide to swim 151515 minutes longer than she does one day at practice. write an equation for the number of minutes you swim, yyy, when your friend swims xxx number of minutes.

The required equation is,

y = x + 15

Step-by-step explanation:

Here y represents the number of minutes taken by me to swim while x represents the number of minutes taken by my friend,

Since,

The number minutes taken by me = Number of minutes taken by my friend + 15

⇒ y = x + 15

Which is the required equation.

answer: 230 miles ( vote ! )

step-by-step explanation:

180.39 minus 17.99 equals 162.4

then divide 162.4 by .80 to get 230