The mill can produce 72 tons of flour in 8 hours.
If the mill processes 27 tons of flour in 3 hours, we can easily deduce how many tons of flour the mill processes in 1 hour by dividing by 3:
[tex] 27 \text{ tons in } 3 \text{ hours } \implies \frac{27}{3}=9 \text{ tons in } 1 \text{ hour} [/tex]
And now that we know how many tons of flour the mill processes in 1 hour, we simply have to multiply it by 8 to get how many tons of flour the mill processes in 8 hours:
[tex] 9 \text{ tons in } 1 \text{ hour} \implies 9\cdot 8 = 72 \text{ tons in } 8 \text{ hours} [/tex]
