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During a race, Bernie ran 9 meters every 4 seconds, while Barnaby ran 2 meters every second and got a 10 -meter head start. If the race was 70 meters long, did Bernie ever catch up with Barnaby? If so, when? Justify your answer.

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We let xx be the time in seconds and yBey_{Be} be Bernie's distance in meters and yBay_{Ba} be Barnaby's distance in meters. Now, we express the problems in a system of equations

yBe=94xyBa=2x+9\begin{aligned} y_{Be}=\frac{9}{4}x\\ y_{Ba}=2x+9 \end{aligned}

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