Are the fractions 1/3 and 3/9 equivalent?

Liz had 140 pens and inna had 100 pens. after inna gave liz some pens, liz had 3 times as many pens as inna. how many pens did inna give liz?

In the diagram below,abc is congruent to dec what is the value of x

For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?