Question

scarce resources mean people face trade - offs. a trade - off is when you have to give up some amount of one thing to get something else you want. for example, imagine you want to grow both cucumbers and tomatoes. each square of land will fit 1 tomato plant. look at the two pictures of the garden. then follow the instructions below. before after = cucumber plant = tomato plant complete the sentence. to make room for 4 tomato plants, you will have to take out _ cucumber plants. 0 6 8 12

Explanation:

Step1: Count initial cucumbers

There are 12 cucumber plants initially.

Step2: Analyze change

After adding 4 tomato - plants, some cucumbers are removed. Each tomato - plant takes the space of 2 cucumber - plants (since each square can fit 1 tomato plant and originally had 2 cucumber plants).

Step3: Calculate removed cucumbers

Since each tomato plant replaces 2 cucumber plants, for 4 tomato plants, the number of cucumber plants to be removed is $4\times2 = 8$.

Answer:

8