Which property would be used first to make the following problem easier to work?
2/3 x (3/5 x 5)
1. associative property of multiplication
2.multiplicative property
3. commutative property of multiplication
4. distributive property

34 cup. a serving of vegetable soup is 23 cup. the restaurant sold 20 servings of chicken noodle soup and 18 servings of vegetable soup. how many more cups of chicken noodle soup did they sell than cups of vegetable soup?

()1. how do you find range? 2.the following set of data is to be organized into a histogram. if there are to be five intervals on the graph, what should the length of each interval be? 30, 34, 23, 21, 27, 25, 29, 29, 25, 23, 32, 31

Questions 9-10. use the table of educational expenditures to answer the questions. k-12 education expenditures population indiana $9.97 billion 6.6 million illinois $28.54 billion 12.9 million kentucky $6.58 billion 4.4 million michigan $16.85 billion 9.9 million ohio $20.23 billion 11.6million 9. if the amount of k-12 education expenses in indiana were proportional to those in ohio, what would have been the expected value of k-12 expenditures in indiana? (give the answer in billions rounded to the nearest hundredth) 10. use the value of k-12 education expenditures in michigan as a proportion of the population in michigan to estimate what the value of k-12 education expenses would be in illinois. a) find the expected value of k-12 expenditures in illinois if illinois were proportional to michigan. (give the answer in billions rounded to the nearest hundredth) b) how does this compare to the actual value for k-12 expenditures in illinois? (lower, higher, same? )