Is this equation linear or nonlinear? y=0

An astronaut drops a rock into a crater on the moon. the distance, d(t), in meters, the rock travels after t seconds can be modeled by the function d(t)0.82. what is the average speed, in meters per second, of the rock between 5 and 10 seconds after it was dropped?

Two cyclists 84 miles apart start riding toward each other at the samen time. one cycles 2 times as fast as the other. if they meet 4 hours later what is the speed (in miles) of the faster cyclists

The graph of a function f(x)=(x+2)(x-4). which describes all of the values for which the graph is negative and increasing? all real values of x where x< -2 all real values of x where -2