The answer is: x=-3 and x=3
Paula's dog : Carolos' dog = 3 : 1
The total number of ratio units is 3+1 = 4, so each one stands for (48 lb)/4 = 12 lb.
Paula's dog weighs 3·12 lb = 36 lb.
Carlos' dog weighs 1·12 lb = 12 lb.
He donated 18 books per month. you first finds the difference of the books then do use the number of books by the number of months (in this case it was 5 months)
This should mean that the machine will have a chance of choosing every number likely