SOLUTION: I do not know how to solve the problem: A machine makes 36 widgets in 20 minutes. At that rate, how many widgets will the machine make in an 8-hour day? Then the book says: The mac

Question 764583: I do not know how to solve the problem: A machine makes 36 widgets in 20 minutes. At that rate, how many widgets will the machine make in an 8-hour day? Then the book says: The machine will make _________ widgets in a day.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A machine makes 36 widgets in 20 minutes. At that rate, how many widgets will the machine make in an 8-hour day?
------
8 hours = 8*60 = 480 minutes
--------------
Use a proportion:
x/480 = 36/20
------
x = 480(26/20)
---
x = 24*26 = 624 widgets in 8 hrs.
=======================================
Cheers,
Stan H.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Machine X produces W widgets in five minutes. Machine X and Y, working at the same time,... (answered by stanbon)

have a machine, where only 2% of widgets produced are defective. I randomly select two... (answered by stanbon)

At the end of a factory assembly line, completed widgets are deposited into a box until... (answered by richwmiller)

Allison and Xavier are workers in a factory making widgets. Xavier can make 4 widgets per (answered by josgarithmetic)

Respected sir, plz help me to solve this arith problem... 1] Running at their... (answered by ptaylor)

A and B make widgets. A and B together can finish making them in 24 days. A alone works... (answered by Edwin McCravy,greenestamps)

Hello, Do I need to rearange this type problem to solve? Please advise....... (answered by josmiceli)

A machine produces widgets at a defective rate of 10%. A sample of 7 widgets is taken,... (answered by stanbon)

The widget factory samples 75 widgets and finds 3 defective ones. If the factory produces (answered by ikleyn)