Question

Coco's garden has 8 tomato plants, 4 pepper plants, 33 squash plants, and 66 pumpkin plants. For every 7 plants in Coco's garden, there are 2 ___ plants. Choose 1 answer:

Answer 1

Answer:

Pumpkin.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be total number of plants, who is in proportion 2 for every 7 plants in Coco's garden.

We have been given that Coco's garden has 8 tomato plants, 4 pepper plants, 3 squash plants, and 6 pumpkin plants.

$\text{Total number of plants in Coco's garden}=8+4+3+6$

$\text{Total number of plants in Coco's garden}=21$

Since proportions states that two fractions or quantities are equal. To find which plant are 2 with respect to every 7 plants in Coco's garden, we can set our proportions as:

$\frac{x}{21}=\frac{2}{7}$

Upon cross multiplying our equation we will get,

$7*x=2*21$

$\frac{7*x}{7}=\frac{2*21}{7}$

$x=3*2$

$x=6$

Since Coco's garden has 6 pumpkin plants, therefore, for every 7 plants in Coco's garden, there are 2 pumpkin plants.