Question

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

Answer 1

You can do cross multiplication:  5----40
                                                    8-----x
                                            
                                               8 x 40 = 320
                                               
                                                      x  =  320 / 5
                                                      x = 64

So 64 is your answer.

Answer 2

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