a store is selling apples on sale for 21.00 for 6 pounds if apples weights 5 ib

how many apples can you buy for 168.00

since no apple in my experience weighs 5 lbs, I'll assume you meant 0.5 lb per apple. In that case,

$168 * 6lb/$21 * 1apple/0.5lb = (168*6)/(21*0.5) = 96 apples