Help! Samantha and Jake are training for a marathon. To prepare for this marathon they have been training and tracking their progress periodically. In the first week of training Jake ran an average of 7.75 minutes per mile. Later, in week four of training he ran an average of 7.00 minutes per mile. In the first week of training Samantha ran an average of 8.10 minutes per mile. Later, in week six of training she ran an average of 6.60 minutes per mile. Assuming that Jake and Samantha continue to train and improve their times at the same rate your task is to determine which week they will have

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Help! Samantha and Jake are training for a marathon. To prepare for this marathon they have been training and tracking their progress periodically. In the first week of training Jake ran an average of 7.75 minutes per mile. Later, in week four of training he ran an average of 7.00 minutes per mile.  In the first week of training Samantha ran an average of 8.10 minutes per mile. Later, in week six of training she ran an average of 6.60 minutes per mile.  Assuming that Jake and Samantha continue to train and improve their times at the same rate your task is to determine which week they will have

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the same average minutes per mile. We will assume that the relationship is linear as they will be training for a maximum of 10 weeks. To complete this task follow the steps below.