If 400 people can be seated in eight subway cars how many people can be seated in five subway cars?

250. Yeah i got 250 too. here is what i did: equation is 8/5 = 400/x cross multiply 2000= 8x x=250 ta da! yea i had to work it out myself i got 250 i did first of all divide 400/8 to know how many for one, and thus multiply the answer by 5 to give 250. here is what i did. 400 people divide by 8 subway car to give 50 then multiply by 5 to give 250