The area of a certain desert (desert 1) is nine times the area of another desert (desert 2). if the sum of their areas is 40,000,000 square miles, find the area of each desert.

the square root of what number? if you add that, then someone will probably answer the question.

i think there was a typo. you wrote pat brings 3 quarts of ice-cream to the party. each serving of ice-cream is 1 6 quart. how many total servings of ice-cream does pat bring to the party? i think the bold is supposed to be 1/6. so 1 quart of ice cream = 6 servings. 6 * 3 = 18.