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Rachel traveled to five different areas (A, B, C, D, and E) to study the number of buckeye butterflies and the number of monarch butterflies living there. The table shows her findings.

The relationship between the number of buckeye butterflies and the number of monarch butterflies is not proportional across all areas. Which two areas have buckeyes and monarchs in the same proportion?

Rachel traveled to five different areas (A, B, C, D, and E) to study the number of-example-1
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Answer: : Area B and D have the same proportion

Explanation:

27:36 = 3:4

24:32=3:4

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Answer: Area B and D have the same proportion

Explanation:

27:36 = 3:4

24:32=3:4

this just means that they are fractions and that if you simplify both of them by dividing them by the greatest common factor they have it equals 3/4 making them both proportional

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