Answer:
Jackson's distance from the finish line after x minutes will be given as;
since from the statements we know that x represents the number of minutes he had run, for us to be able to calculate his distance from the finish line we simply solve the problem mathematically as follows;
x=80-8y
Step-by-step explanation:
from the initial representation we have x+8y=80,
from the preliminary statement we know x to be the number of minutes from the start of the race to the current point Jackson.
so we assume that y in the equation represents the number of distance covered by the x minutes in miles.
that is how we end up with ;
x=80-8y.
