You are pulling a kite back to the ground at a rate of 2 feet per second.
after 4 seconds, the kite is 16 feet above the ground.
a. write an equation that represents the height y (in feet) above the
ground after x seconds.
b. at what height was the kite when you started pulling it in?
c. when does the kite touch the ground?

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.