SOLUTION: Mrs. Claus is making delicious soft homade cookies. She has made 262 cookies so far and will make batches of 24 cookies per hour for the rest of the day. But the head elf has made

Question 1012256: Mrs. Claus is making delicious soft homade cookies. She has made 262 cookies so far and will make batches of 24 cookies per hour for the rest of the day. But the head elf has made a quick cookie baking machine. He has already made 100 cookies and his machine can make yummy cookies at a rate of 78 cookies per hour. How many hours until the machine makes the same amount of cookies as Mrs. Claus and how many cookies will that be?
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
H=number of hours
.
Mrs. Claus cookies=262+24H
Head Elf cookies=100+78H
.
262+24H=100+78H
162=54H
3=H
ANSWER 1: In 3 hours the machine will catch up with Mrs. Claus.
.
100 cookies + (3 hours) x (78 cookies/hour) = 334 cookies
ANSWER 2: The machine will have made 334 cookies.
.

RELATED QUESTIONS
Patricia is making cookies and has a gallon of milk for a recipe. Each batch of 36... (answered by ikleyn)

The principal of a school made cookies for his staff. Each batch of cookies was 8... (answered by Alan3354)

Mrs Thomas baked 3 types of cookies for sale. She baked 24 more walnut cookies than... (answered by josgarithmetic,Octo-pie7,MathTherapy)

One batch of cookies calls for 2 cups of sugar. how much sugar is needed to make two and... (answered by Mathtut)

Mrs. Ramos sold twice as many butter cookies as chocolate chip cookies and twice as many (answered by ikleyn,Edwin McCravy)

Mrs. Ramos sold twice as many butter cookies as chocolate chip cookies and twice as... (answered by CPhill)

A baker has 16 eggs and 15 cups of flour. One batch of chocolate chip cookies requires 4... (answered by mananth)

Hi Can you please help this. I got 7/8 is an answer. I dont know if iam right. So please (answered by Boreal)

ryan bought a box of cookies that has 30 pices of cookies and joshua ken ate 1/2 of the... (answered by stanbon)