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You buy 5 pounds of pears for $40. What is the cost of 8 pounds of pears?
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You buy 5 pounds of pears for $40. What is the cost of 8 pounds of pears?

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You can do cross multiplication: 5----40
8-----x

8 x 40 = 320

x = 320 / 5
x = 64

So 64 is your answer.

















User Takepara
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8 pounds of pears would cost 64.00 because 40/5=8.00-price per pear so 8 pounds x8= 64.00
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