SOLUTION: if 30 cans equals 50 cent and 60 cans equals a dollar how many cans would take to reach$5000

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Question 733632: if 30 cans equals 50 cent and 60 cans equals a dollar how many cans would take to reach$5000
Answer by chana(69)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
60 cans takes 1$---------------- 1
so X cans takes 5000$------------ 2
Cross multiply the above two eqns
60*5000 = X cans
so, total cans = 300,000

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