A student has a business selling snowballs during the summer. For each snowball the student sells, they makes a profit of $1.50. On the hottest day of the summer, the student sold 125 snowballs and made a profit of $187.50. Create a model in point slope form to represent the profit the student makes, y, based on the number of snowballs sold, x. Use mathematics to justify your answer.

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?