Shalane owns a flower nursery in a small town. she took an inventory of the number and types of flowers she sold this month.
type of flower number of flowers sold this month
rose 60
carnation 43
bird of paradise 24
hyacinth 14
lilac 18
peony 35
sunflower 6
shalane will order 2,000 flowers for a state-wide flower exhibition next month. based on the number of flowers she sold last month, determine how many hyacinths shalane should anticipate selling. show your work.

So since 60+43+24+14+18+35+6= 200 and she sold 14 hyacinths out of those 200 flowers, you are trying to find how many flowers she should anticipate selling out of 2,000. The equation looks like this:
14/200 = ?/2,000
To find out what the value of ? is, find out how the denominators are related. To do this, do 2,000 divided by 200 which equals 10. To keep the fractions equivalent, what you do to the top, you must do to the bottom. So if 200 x 10= 2,000   14 x 10 will be your answer. 14 x 10= 140
14/200 = 140/2000

So, out of 2,000 flowers Shalane should anticipate selling 140 hycinths.

I hope this helps:)