SOLUTION: At Art's Grocery Store three cans of chicken soup sell for $1.25. Find the cost of 8 cans What is the formula to solve this problem

Question 302368: At Art's Grocery Store three cans of chicken soup sell for $1.25. Find the cost of 8 cans
What is the formula to solve this problem
Found 2 solutions by vleith, unlockmath:
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can use a ratio to solve this

So x = 3.34
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
We can use proportions to solve this. We set it up like:
3/1.25=8/x
Cross multiply to get:
3x=10
Divide by 3 to get:
x=3.33 dollars (rounded off)
Make sense?
RJ
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