Question

Ingrid collected 6 cans of food and 18 boxes of food for the food bank. Which describes the relationship between cans of food and boxes of food?
Ingrid collected 3 times as many cans as she did boxes.
For every 6 boxes of food Ingrid collected, she also collected 18 cans of food.
For every 18 boxes of food Ingrid collected, she also collected 24 cans of food.
Ingrid collected 3 times as many boxes as she did cans.

Answer 1

Ingrid collected 3 times as many boxes as she did cans.

Explanation: 18 boxes is 3 × 6 cans, so the number of boxes is three times the number of cans.