Question

Elton just bought a new flash drive for his computer. He read in the literature that 7 flash drives can hold 1792 megabytes of data. Write and solve a proportion to find the number of megabytes of data that 5 flash drives can hold.

Answer 1

1280 megabytes

Explanation:

Take 1792 and divide that by 7 to get how many megabytes are in 1 flash drive. Then multiply the answer by 5 to get the number of megabytes that are in 5 flash drives.