Hi Juvy,

I drew a line representing time in seconds and for example for runners Annie ($A$) and Clara ($C$) if Clara finished $t$ seconds ahead of Annie I put Clara $t$ units to the right of Annie. I started with Ben and Mike and since Ben finished seven seconds ahead of Mike I put Ben 7 units to the right of Mike.

For the next statement the runners were Noel and Sam and I don't see how they fit relative to Mike and Ben so I moved to the next statement. "Mike finished 5 seconds behind Noel". Where does Noel fit on the line? Now that you know where to fit Noel, what about Sam?

Penny