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At a local grocery store, apples cost $2.50 per pound, and cherries cost $4.25 per pound.

Which of the following situations can be modeled by the equation below?
2.50x=4.25(x−8)

The cost of x pounds of apples is the same as the cost of x−8 pounds of cherries.

The cost of x pounds of cherries is the same as the cost of x−8 pounds of apples.

The cost of x pounds of cherries is $8 less than the cost of x pounds of apples.

The cost of x pounds of apples is $8 less than the cost of x pounds of cherries.