A cook makes vegetable barley soup by mixing barely into vegetablebroth In the amounts shown. Choose all of the statements that are true or false.


Answer:
A. Statement A is true
B. Statement B is false
C.
D.
Explanation:
From the figure, we can see that for each vegetable barley soup the cook makes, the cook needs 7 quarts of broth and 2 pounds of barley.
We can determine the unit rate of the soup mix as shown below;
[tex]\text{Unit rate of soup mix}=\frac{7qt\text{ broth }}{2lb\text{ barley}}=\frac{\frac{7}{2}\text{qt broth}}{\frac{2}{2}lb\text{ barley}}=\frac{3.5\text{ qt broth}}{1\text{ lb barley }}[/tex]From our unit rate, let's go ahead and determine how many quarts of broth the cook mix with 5 pounds of barley;
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