Five times the number x plus two
Answer: 45%
Step-by-step explanation: There's 9 people over the age of 14. And 9 divided by the total number, 20, gives you 0.45. 0.45 multiplied by 100 is 45.
Answer: 2.5 hours
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
1. 4
Step-by-step explanation:
For question 1, you need to know the ratio between the recipe and the amount in question.
So if in the recipe, it says it uses 3/4 cup of diced ham, and the question uses 1 cup of diced ham, you can divide 1 by 3/4 to get 4/3. This is how many times bigger the amount used in the question than the recipe.
Then it asks for how many cups of potatoes, to do this, you look at the recipe and how many potatoes it uses: 3.5 cups
To solve it then, you just do 3.5 x 4/3 to get 4
cups of potatoes
There's your answer.
You would have to know the height of the 8th graders