Question

Mr.hooper recorded the number of bags of candy sold at his store last week out of 54 bags of candy sold, 12 were cherry flavored based on these result how many bags of candy out of 36 can be expected to be sold that are not cherry
8
12
28
18


2.Duncan wants to make an aquarium The aquariums are available in two shapes spherical or cubical he can choose either goldfish or fantails to keep in his aquarium which list shows the different combination of aquariums and fish from which Duncan can choose.

SG,CG,SF,CF

SG,SF,GF,SC

SG,SF,CF

CF

Answer 1

The first can be solved using a ratio of total bags sold over Cherry

54/12 = 36/x. Now cross multiply
54x = 12*36
54x = 432 Divide by 54
x = 8

Combinations are SF, SG, CF, and CG