Aaron and Bashira both have a mix of pens and pencils in their pencil cases. Determine who has the least amount of pencils, and by how much. Use let statements and equations in your solution and show your work. B) Bashira A) Aaron Aaron has more pens than pencils. The number of pens and the number of pencils that Aaron has are consecutive even numbers. Altogether, Bashira has a total of 36 pens and pencils. Twelve more than the number of pencils equals triple the number of pens. Half the number of pencils plus double the number of pens equals twenty-nine.

The manager of an apartment complex is also a tenant. He pays only three-fourths of the monthly rent that each of the remaining 6 tenants pays. Each month, a total of $5,940 in rent is paid by the 7 occupants. How much rent does the manager pay? $

The options for the first box are: step 1, 2, 3, or 4. The options for the second box are: a cube root cannot be a negative number, an integer raised to a negative number will not be less than one, the fraction should be added before multiplying by the cube root, and the square root of the sum does not equal the sum of the square roots. The options for the 3rd box are: -110, -75.2, 15.2, 20.8