8 Cakes cost £4.00 how much 3 cakes cost?

8 cakes ... £4.00

3 cakes ... £x = ?

If you would like to know how much 3 cakes cost, you can calculate this using the following steps:

8 * x = 3 * 4

8 * x = 12 / 8

x = 12/8

x = £3/2 = £1.5

Result: 3 cakes cost £1.5.

Well 8 cakes is 4.00 so that means each cakes is. 50 right? so. 50*e is 1.50