Last Wednesday, two friends met up after school to read the book they were both assigned in Literature class. Kylie can read 1 page per minute, and she had already read 81 pages. Adam, who has a reading speed of 2 pages per minute, had read 37 pages. Eventually they had read the same number of pages. How long did that take? How many pages had each of them read?

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?