Setting up the ratio, you get 3/18=x/54. Solve the proportion, you get that Riverside and Smithville are 9 cm apart on the map.
If it's just distribution, not solving for s (I mean I could but do you need to?):
5(2s² - 3s + 4) Distribute/multiply 5 into (2s² - 3s + 4)
(5)2s² - (5)3s + (5)4
10s² - 15s + 20
Given:
The table of values is
Number of Students : 7 14 21 28
Number of Textbooks : 35 70 105 140
To find:
The rate of change and showing that the ratios of the two quantities are proportional and equivalent to the unit rate.
Solution:
The ratio of number of textbooks to number of students are




All the ratios of the two quantities are proportional and equivalent to the unit rate.
Let y be the number of textbooks and x be the number of students, then

Here, k=5.


Hence the rate of change is constant that is 5.
You're answer is 2 5/8. To find a mixed number, you take an improper fraction, (such as 21/8), and you divide the numerator by the denominator. Now, you take the remainder and that will be your new numerator, and the divisor will be your denominator. Example:
__2___ Answer: 2 5/8
8 I 21
-16
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5