SOLUTION: Can you please help me solve the following question? Thank you!
David eats 3 more cashews per minute than Casey does, and he can eat 80 of them in the same time it takes her to
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David eats 3 more cashews per minute than Casey does, and he can eat 80 of them in the same time it takes her to eat 56.. How fast do each of them eat cashews?
Found 2 solutions by solver91311, galactus:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Solve the proportion for 
, Casey's rate of cashew consumption per minute.
John
Answer by galactus(183) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is like a d=rt ptoblem, only with cashews instead of cars, planes, boats, etc.
Let r=Casey's rate. Then David's rate is r+3.
Since their times are equal, we have:
Casey eats 7 per minute and, therefore, David eats 10 per minute.
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