SOLUTION: gina can cook basmati rice 3 times faster in a pressure cooker than she can in a regular pot. if the rice usually takes 24 minutes to cook in a regular pot what is the cooking tim

Question 515714: gina can cook basmati rice 3 times faster in a pressure cooker than she can in a regular pot. if the rice usually takes 24 minutes to cook in a regular pot what is the cooking time in a pressure cooker?
Found 2 solutions by jaco43, oberobic:
Answer by jaco43(1) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
24/3=8
Answer by oberobic(2304) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To say the pressure cooker does the job "three times faster" is to say it does the job in 1/3 the time of the other method.
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The other method takes 24 minutes to cooks the rice.
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Therefore,
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1/3*24 = 8 minutes to cook the rice in the pressure cooker.
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