Given that, in 5 months, firefighters responded to 80 wildfires:
• You can determine the rate of wildfires per month firefighters respond to by dividing 80 wildfires by 5 months:
[tex]\frac{80\text{ }wildfires}{5\text{ }months}=16\text{ }\frac{wildfires}{month}[/tex]
You can determine that each rectangle of the diagram provided in the exercise represents the rate obtained above.
• Assuming that the rate is the same in 8 months, you can multiply the rate obtained before by 8 months, in order to determine the number of wildfires the firefighters will respond to in 8 months:
[tex](16\text{ }\frac{wildfires}{month})(8\text{ }months)=128\text{ }wildfires[/tex]
Hence, the answer is:
