you recently bought and planted some pea shoots

Question

You recently bought and planted some pea shoots. So far they have grown 5 inches in a week. At that rate, how much will they have grown at the end of 30 days?

Answer 1

Hi! The way to find the answer to this is to set up a ratio table. This means that you set up two fractions. One that shows what you know: 5 inches to 7 days. Then you set up what you want to know. ? inches to 30 days. 

 

It would look like this: 

5/7 equals x/30

 

The next step would be 7x=150 (7 times x and 5 times 30). Then divide both sides by 7 to get your answer, represented by x. Hope this helps!