SOLUTION: Please help me solve this equation: A risograph machine can finish 100 pages in 1 minute. How many books of 250 pages can the machine copy in 20 minutes ?

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Question 697626: Please help me solve this equation: A risograph machine can finish 100 pages in 1 minute. How many books of 250 pages can the machine copy in 20 minutes ?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of books of pages
that the machine can copy in min
Note that would be the number of pages
that the machine can copy in min
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The machine's rate of copying is pages / min
I can say that

This is just ( pages/min = pages/min )


The machine can copy 8 books of 250 pages in 20 min
check:


OK


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