At a candy store selling gourmet jelly beans, the amount you pay varies directly with the weight of the beans. The cost of 5 pounds of jelly beans is $12. During the past month $7200 worth of jelly beans were purchased. How many pounds of jelly beans were purchased during the past month?
First, you would have to do 12/5 to get 2.4 (the price per pound). Then you would to 7200/2.4 to get 3000 pounds of jelly beans that were purchased in the past month.
