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B. Beth's age is 18 years, and Sally's age is 42 years.
Step-by-step explanation:
You can solve this question in a couple of different ways. First, you can use process of elimination. You know that Sally is older than Beth because she has to be 3 times older 6 years ago, so you can get rid of options C and D because they both show Beth as being older. Now you only have A and B, and you can use a different process. Now from just looking at it, you can tell that A actually already shows Sally as 3 times Beth's age, 15 * 3 = 45. If you go to B, you can go ahead and subtract 6 from 18 (Beth's age) which will give you 12, and then multiply that by 3 to get 36. Now if you take 42 (Sally's age) and subtract 6 from it as well, you will get 36. This means that is lines up. To simplify, you are subtracting 6 from both 18 and 42, and then you are multiplying the lower number by 3 to see if it gets to the bigger number.
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k = 42
the constant of proportionality in this inverse variation is 42.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the number of people that want cake
And y the number of slices each can have;
Since x is inversely proportional to y;
x = k/y .....1
Where k is the proportionality constant;
To solve for k, we will substitute any of the case scenario given into equation 1.
If 14 people want cake, then they can each have 3 slices;
x = 14 , y = 3
substituting;
14 = k/3
k = 14 × 3 = 42
k = 42
the constant of proportionality in this inverse variation is 42.
Therefore,
x = 42/y
