SOLUTION: A pot of boiling soup cooks 80 degrees F in 12.5 minutes. Part A Sierra wants to find the rate at which the soup cooks. What number should she use for the dividend. (How do you

Question 1011743: A pot of boiling soup cooks 80 degrees F in 12.5 minutes.
Part A
Sierra wants to find the rate at which the soup cooks. What number should she use for the dividend. (How do you set the problem up?)
Part B. What is the average rate of temperature loss per minute?
Thank you
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A pot of boiling soup cooks 80 degrees F in 12.5 minutes.
Part A
Sierra wants to find the rate at which the soup cooks. What number should she use for the dividend. (How do you set the problem up?)
I think you mean cools, not cooks.
The rate can be degs/minute or minutes/deg.
To find degs/min, divide the degs by the minutes.
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Part B. What is the average rate of temperature loss per minute?
To find degs/min, divide the degs by the minutes.
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