SOLUTION: A Ship has sufficient food on board to feed 600 passengers for 3 weeks. How long would the food last for 800 passengers? The answer previously supplied on this website is incorr

Question 914082: A Ship has sufficient food on board to feed 600 passengers for 3 weeks. How long would the food last for 800 passengers?
The answer previously supplied on this website is incorrect!
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The 600 passengers for 3 weeks quantity of food can be put into how many weeks for 1 passenger, and you then will know the rate per passenger; just assume you have some known quantity of food. You can simply call this some variable, p, the quantity of food as the "sufficient food".

If 600 passengers consume p in 3 weeks, then
1 passenger consumes p in 3*600=1800 weeks.
is the one-passenger consumtion rate

Question, how much time t for 800 passengers to consume p?

weeks.
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