SOLUTION: How do I set these up?
It takes 13 people to pick 112 watermelons in a day. How many people would it take to pick 200 watermelons in a day?
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It takes 13 people to pick 112 watermelons in a day. How many people would it take to pick 200 watermelons in a day?
Set up a proportion for the following situation.It takes Todd 8 minutes to eat 5 pies at a pie eating contest. How many pies can Todd eat in 15 minutes?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Watermelon example:
Use rate as watermelons per day and find the rate for 1 person.
If 13 people pick 112 watermelons in 1 day,
Then 1 person picks 112 watermelons in days. That is 112 melons per 13 days.
When people work together, their rates are added through simple arithmetic addition. For n count of people to pick watermelons, the rate will be melons per day.
What is wanted? What is n so that in t=1, the number of watermelons picked is 200. r*t=Q, where Q is count of melons picked, t is days of picking, and r is rate of the workers picking those melons.
In this situation, , and you want to find n, the number of workers who will pick those 200 melons in that one day.
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