Then a is Half of 45 wich is 22.5 I believe.
Well, there is one for you, the. there is your five friends which both recieve one. if you don't want to give one to yourself and just ur friends you divide 6 and 5 they all would get 1.2
It will take Lauren 1.25 seconds to hit the water.
With the given information, we can write the following quadratic equation.

Now, just use the quadratic formula to solve the equation.
You will get 1.25 and -0.75 as the zeros of the equation (where Laruen hits the water).
Only 1.25 makes sense in the context of this problem.
8x -6 -8 = 4x +2
4x-14=2
4x=16
X=4