1. A certain restaurant offers 6 kinds of cheese and 2 kinds of fruits for its dessert platter. If each dessert platter contains an equal no. of kinds of cheese and kinds of fruits how many different dessert platters could the restaurant offer?

a) 8, b)12, c)15, d)21, e)27

2. Machine A produces pencils at a constant rate of 9,000 pencils per hour, and machine B produces pencils at a constant rate of 7,000 pencils per hour. If the two machines together must produce 100,000 pencils and if each machine can operate for at most 8 hours, what is the least amount of time, in hours, that machine B must operate?

a) 4, b) 8, c) 5, d) 6, e)7