Edward’s recipe for salad uses a ratio of 3 3/4 cups of lettuce to 1/2 lb of tomatoes. use a complex fraction to compare the amount of lettuce to the amount of tomatoes. determine how many cups of lettuce edward needs to mix with 1 lb of tomatoes. show your work.

It would be 7 1/2. Here's a picture of how I did it

Step-by-step explanation:

I used a method called keep change flip to divide the 3 3/4 and 1/2. I got 30/4, then divided the improper fraction, and got 7 2/4. Then reduced it by 2 and got 7 1/2.

No.

Replace the x's with -5 and you get -25=-27 which is not a solution