A cook makes vegetable barley soup by mixing 2 pounds of barley into 7 quarts of vegetable broth. Assume that the cook continues to use the same rate to make more batches of soup. How many pounds of barley should the cook mix with 35 quarts of broth?

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-7/8

step-by-step explanation:

instead of subtracting you add the -6/8 and -1/8

a

step-by-step explanation:

when a number is between two straight lines it means the absolute value.

to find absolute value you need to know how many numbers is that number away from 0.

when finding absolute value the number will always come out positive

so absolute value of -3 is 3

absolute value of 3/2 is 3/2

absolute value of -2 is 2

absolute value of 3.5 is 3.5

absolute value of -1 is 1

now put these numbers in order:

a)   |-1|, |3/2|, |-2|, |-3|, |3.5|