A cooking pot used in the cafeteria weighs 64 pounds when it is filled with soup. How much would a similar pot with a 1
scale factor of weigh when filled with the same soup?
a.
4 lb
b. 8 lb
C. 16 lb
d. 32 lb

The local farm is advertising a special on fresh picked peaches. the farm charges $4.25 to pick your own peck of peaches and $3.50 for each additional peck you pick. write an equation for the total cost of peaches in terms of the number of pecks. deine your variables. how much does it cost to pick 3 pecks of peaches?

Gretchen is setting up for a banquet. she has 300 chairs and needs to distribute them evenly among t tables. how many chairs should she put at each table? write your answer as an expression.

Saline iv fluid bags cost $64.20 for 24, 1000 ml bags from one supplier. a new supplier sells 500 ml bags for $2 each. the hospital uses about 10,000, 1000 ml bags each month. nurses report that about half of the bags are more than half full when they are discarded. if you are going to use only one supplier, which size bag provides the best deal, and how much will you save each month? compare the cost of the new supplier to the current one.