SOLUTION: Trying to figure out this story problem and I am having some difficulty.
A disc jockey must play 16 commercial spots during 1 hour of a radio show. Each commercial is either 30 se
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Question 327007: Trying to figure out this story problem and I am having some difficulty.
A disc jockey must play 16 commercial spots during 1 hour of a radio show. Each commercial is either 30 seconds or 60 seconds long. If the total commercial time during 1 hour is 13 mins. How many 30-second commercials were played that hour? And how many 60-second commercials?
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Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let 30 second commercial be x
60 second commercial will be 16-x
13 minutes = 13*60 seconds = 780
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30x+60(16-x)= 780
30x+960-60x=780
-30x+960=780
add -960 to both sides
-30x+960-960=780-960
-30x=-180
divide by -30
x=-180/-30
x= 6 which is 30 second commercial
16-x = 16-6= 10 60 second commercials
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CHECK
6*30+10*60=780 seconds= 13 minutes
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