Find the tablespoons of sugar

5lbs of chocolate contains 10 tablespoons of sugar. How many tablespoons of sugar would be in 8lbs of chocolate?

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I would set up a proportion....and a blender.

5lbs of chocolate contains 10 tbsp of sugar
8 lbs of chocolate contains x tbsp of sugar

5x = 80 {cross-multiplied}
x = 16 {divided each side by 5}

16 tbsp of sugar is what 8 lbs of chocolate would contain.

Another way is that you could’ve noticed the 10 tbsp of sugar is two times the 5 lbs of chocolate.
Just like the 16 tbsp of sugar would be two times the 8 lbs of chocolate.

I’ll take a sample, but I’m not cleaning up.

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