If a soup recipe calls for 1 cup of carrots for every 3 cups of chicken, how many cups of carrots are needed if we have 18 cups of chicken?

a. 6
b. 15
c. 3
d. 12

You purchased 8 pounds 10 ounces of candy from a candy shop. you want to split it equally among 3 classrooms at a local school.

Your friend swims on the school team. in his first four races, his times are 24.7, 23.5, 25.6, and 27.2 seconds. which time listed for his next race would make the range larger?

Simonne used the following steps to simplify the given expression. 12 - 3(-2x + 4) step 1: 12 + (–3)·(–2x) + (–3)·(4) step 2: 12 + 6x + (–12) step 3: 12 + (–12) + 6x step 4: 0 + 6x step 5: 6x what property of real numbers was used to transition from step 3 to step 4? a. identity property of addition b. inverse property of addition c. associative property of addition d. commutative property of addition