By graphing it, oddly enough... you can just make a table of values and graph that, bear in mind that a LINEAR function is just a LINE, and to graph a line, all you need is two points. *Unless you have a specific function in mind.
The first column is the ratio you start with. The next column in the table should be the reduced fraction. To properly reduce a fraction, you divide the same number on the top and bottom of the fraction. Melody instead subtracted 1 in the top and bottom of the fraction to reduce it. She should have divided the top and bottom by 2 to get the second column of 1 pound of turkey and 3 people served.
The final column is designed to be the answer to the initial question of how many people are fed by 15 pounds of ground turkey. Starting with column 2 (the reduced ratio of 1/3), multiply the top by 15 to get 15 pounds of ground turkey. Then do the same to the bottom of the fraction. 3 x 15 = 45 people fed.
So the table should have been
Pounds of turkey 2 1 15
People served 1 3 45
Melody's overriding error was in believing that adding or subtracting numbers to both the top and bottom of a ratio/fraction keep its value the same. Instead, only multiplying or dividing the top and bottom by the same number creates an equivalent fraction.
Answer:
-The equation r+b-33 represents the total number of marbles
-There 9 black marbles
-There are 24 red marbles
Step-by-step explanation:
The bag contains 33 red and black marbles. Let the number of black marbles be b and that of red marble to r
Total number of marbles will be
b+r = 33 i.e b+r-33 = 0... (1)
If the number of red marbles is 6 more than double the number of black marbles, this can be represented as;
r = 6+ 2b... (2)
Substituting 2 in eqn 1 we have;
b + 6+2b = 33
3b = 27
b = 9
r = 33-9
r = 24
This shows that there are 9 black marbles, 24 red marbles and the equation r+b-33 represents the total number of marbles in the bag.
When applied to each other they are dependent
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Go to Khan Academy and type in Solving linear systems the matrices (video).
