There is boxes of pencils and rubbers. a box of rubbers contains 14 rubbers in it and a box of pencils has 10 pencils in it. a teacher wants to have the same amount of each. what would the answer be if she wanted the least amount possible of pencils and rubbers

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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the answer is 1/4

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

the answer is a beach is the best place to be