How do you find what a variable means?

The soup shack usually makes tomato soup with 99 tomatoes for every 1212 cups of soup. today, they made 88 cups of soup with 66 tomatoes. how does today's soup compare to the usual recipe?

For what value of x does 4x = (1/8) x + 5?

Abag has more green balls than blue balls, and there is at least one blue ball. let bb represent the number of blue balls and let gg represent the number of green balls. let's compare the expressions 2b2b and b + gb+g. which statement is correct? choose 1