A new factory is growing fast and hiring a lot of new workers. Every week, the total number of workers doubles in size. If it takes 18 weeks for the factory to be at full capacity, how many weeks would it take for the factory to be at half capacity?

9 weeks

Step-by-step explanation:

divide the full capacity by 2 to get 9 because 9 x 2 is 18 and half of the full capacity would be half capacity

1 and 2

step-by-step explanation:

the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b