Michelle wants to determine the height of the flag pole outside of her school. She places a meter stick next to the flag pole and measures the shadow of the meter stick and the flag pole. If the meter stick has a shadow of 140 centimeters and the flag pole has a shadow of 35 meters, then how tall is the flag pole?
A.
25 meters
B.
12.5 meters
C.
250 meters
D.
400 meters

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?