SOLUTION: A dentisit can schedule 15 patients in a day if she allows 24 minutes per patient. How many can she schedule if she allows 30 minutes per patient and works the same number of hours
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Question 38276: A dentisit can schedule 15 patients in a day if she allows 24 minutes per patient. How many can she schedule if she allows 30 minutes per patient and works the same number of hours?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Here we can express the work done by the dentist in patient-minutes and can write a working equation as
15 * 24 = x * 30 or
30x = 360
and
x = 12 patients
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