In South Georgia, Ms. Smith’s orange farm workers pick 150 bushels of oranges in 5 hours. How many bushels of oranges would they pick in 7 hours? Do not label answer.(1 point)

Question

Bushels of oranges

Answer 1

To find out how many bushels of oranges they would pick in 7 hours, we can set up a proportion.

If the workers pick 150 bushels of oranges in 5 hours, we can set up the proportion:

150 bushels / 5 hours = x bushels / 7 hours

To solve for x, we can cross multiply:

5x = 150 * 7

Simplifying the right side, we get:

5x = 1050

Divide both sides by 5:

x = 1050 / 5

x = 210

Therefore, the workers would pick 210 bushels of oranges in 7 hours.