What expression is equivalent to 3x + 5(x - 2)

Agarden consists of an apple tree, a pear tree, cauliflowers, and heads of cabbage. there are 40 vegetables in the garden. 24 of them are cauliflowers. what is the ratio of the number of cauliflowers to the number of heads of cabbage?

Ming says that 0.24 > 1/4 because 0.24= 2/4. which best explains mings error

Hurry if the population of of an ant hill doubles every 10 days and there are currently 100 ants living in the ant hill what will the ant population be in 20 days