Answer:
53 oranges.
Explanation:
To find this, we must set up a proportionality formula.
6 8
- = -
40 x
Our goal is to find x.
First we cross multiply and get:
6x=320
Now we can divide each side by 6 to get x by itself.
x=53.33,
however, because you cannot have less than a whole orange in a box, each box contained 53.