Carmen likes to make her own trail mix. her recipe calls for 8 cups of peanuts and 2 cups of chocalate chips. she discovers that she only has 4 cups of peanuts in her cupboard. how many cups of chocalate chips does she need for this amount of peanuts? what is the ratio of peanuts to chocalate chips in the original recipe? use counters to model the ratio. draw your model

Beatrice decides she wants to babysit a few children at the same time to earn the money faster. she tells parents that if they allow her to babysit their children at her house, she will eliminate her automatic $5 tip and will give them an additional $5 discount. (a) write an equation showing the total cost for each client. identify all variables. (b) four parents bring their children to beatrice’s house at the same time for babysitting. beatrice wants to find out how many hours she must babysit the 4 children to earn exactly the $100 she needs in order to buy the present for her mother. write and solve an equation to find the number of hours. justify each step in the solution. (c) one parent decides not to drop off her child. the remaining 3 parents drop their children off at 9 a.m. two of the parents say they will be back at 1 p.m. the third parent says she will pick up her child at 2 p.m. at noon, beatrice realizes she needs feeding the 3 ch

At the electronics store you have a coupon for 20% off up to 2 cds you buy for cds with the original cost of $10.99 each the sales tax is 5% what is the total cost of your purchase

Jane moves from a house with 71 square feet of closet space to an apartment with 45.44 square feet of closet space. what is the percentage decrease of jane’s closet space?