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Rewrite the following without an exponent. (5/8)-1

Agarden consists of an apple tree, a pear tree, cauliflowers, and heads of cabbage. there are 40 vegetables in the garden. 24 of them are cauliflowers. what is the ratio of the number of cauliflowers to the number of heads of cabbage?

The sum of the first eight terms of an arithmetic progression is 9m + 14. the fifth term of the06 progression is 2m - 6, where m is a constant.given that the first term of the progression is 26,find the value of the common difference, d and thevalue of m.