In athens 2004 summer olympics games aaron peirsol of the united states won the gold medal on the 100-meter backstroke with a time of 54.06 seconds. the right place finisher, marco di carli, completes the race in 55.27 seconds. how much faster was the first place finisher than the right place finisher

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.