Yan is climbing down a ladder. Each time he descends four rungs on the ladder, he stops to see how much farther he has to go. Which word in the problem indicates that a negative integer should be used?

"descends"

Step-by-step explanation:

The word descend means to move or fall downwards. If we were to think of the ladder as the y-axis of a coordinate grid we could see that as you move further down on the axis the numbers turn to negative which indicate that the word descend means that a negative integer should be used :)

6 spoons of sugar for every 21 cups of flour

step-by-step explanation:

5=812a+9+3

step 1: simplify both sides of the equation.

5=812a+9+3

5=(812a)+(9+3)(combine like terms)

5=812a+12

5=812a+12

step 2: flip the equation.

812a+12=5

step 3: subtract 12 from both sides.

812a+12−12=5−12

812a=−7

step 4: divide both sides by 812.

812a /812 = -7/812

a= -1/116

so the answer is

a=   -1/116