SOLUTION: Business and finance. In a bottling company, a machine can fill a 2-liter (L) bottle in 0.5 second (s) and move the next bottle into place in 0.1 s. How many 2-L bottles can be fil

Question 108464: Business and finance. In a bottling company, a machine can fill a 2-liter (L) bottle in 0.5 second (s) and move the next bottle into place in 0.1 s. How many 2-L bottles can be filled by the machine in 2 h?
This is the last question that I really do not quite understand, please help.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a machine can fill a 2-liter (L) bottle in 0.5 second (s) and move the next bottle into place in 0.1 s. How many 2-L bottles can be filled by the machine in 2 h?
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2 hours = 7200 seconds
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Each bottle takes 0.5+0.1 = 0.6 seconds
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7200/0.6 = 12000 bottles in two hours
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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