Two neighbors are draining their pools. Pool A has 7, 646 gallons of water and is draining at a rate of 8 gallons per minute. Pool B has 8500 gallons of water and is draining at a rate of 10 gallons per minute. How many minutes, m, will it take for the two containers to have the same amount of water?

a
The pools will have the same amount of water at 897 minutes.
b
The pools started with the same amount of water.
c
The pools will have the same amount of water at 427 minutes.
d
The pools will never contain the same amount of water.

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation