You increase the amounts of ingredients in a recipe to make a proportional recipe. The original recipe uses two avocados and 0.25 cup of minced onions. The new recipe has 1.5 cups of minced onions. Write a proportion that gives the number x of avocados in the new recipe. Then determine how many avocados are in the new recipe.

Liz is shipping a package to her friend. the maximum weight of a medium flat-rate box is 20 pounds, including the box which weighs 6 ounces. write and solve an inequality to describe the possible weight in pounds, w, of the contents that liz will ship to her friend if she must use a medium flat-rate box. use the drop-down menus to explain your answer.