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

Pumpkin.

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:

`(x)/(21)=(2)/(7)`

Upon cross multiplying our equation we will get,

`7*x=2*21`

`(7*x)/(7)=(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.