How mathematics involved in merchandising??

In the final round of trivia competition, contestants were asked to name as many states that begin with the letter m as they could in 15 seconds. the bar graph shows the number of states the contestants were able to name. how many contestants participated in the final round of the competition? a) 6 b) 8 c) 14 d) 20

34 cup. a serving of vegetable soup is 23 cup. the restaurant sold 20 servings of chicken noodle soup and 18 servings of vegetable soup. how many more cups of chicken noodle soup did they sell than cups of vegetable soup?

Prove that the sum of two consecutive exponents of the number 5 is divisible by 30.if two consecutive exponents are 5n and 5n + 1, then their sum can be written as 30.