What took place between the first and second step?

Which of these choices show a pair of equivalent expressions?

Arestaurant offers a $12 dinner special that has 5 choices for an appetizer, 12 choices for an entrée, and 4 choices for a dessert. how many different meals are available when you select an appetizer, an entrée, and a dessert? a meal can be chosen in nothing ways. (type a whole number.)

Trent wants to buy 2 packs of trading cards for 3 dollars each. the trading card packs that trent normally buys tend to come in packs of 6, 10, 12, or 15 cards. after selecting 2 packs, trent found that the first pack of cards cost 25 cents per card, and the second pack cost 30 cents per card. trent uses this information to write the equations below in order to compare c, the number of cards in each pack.