SOLUTION: What is the formula I should use: If I can produce 144 burgers in 128.3 minutes, how many burgers can I produce in 60 minutes?

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If I can produce 144 burgers in 128.3 minutes, how many burgers can I produce in 60 minutes?

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What is the formula I should use:
If I can produce 144 burgers in 128.3 minutes, how many burgers can I produce in 60 minutes?
There isn't a formula, per se. You use proportions in this case, which is the process of equating two ratios. That being said, we get:
, with B being the number of burgers produced.
128.3B = 60 * 144 -------- Cross-multiplying
B, or number of burgers = = 67.3421668 ≈ burgers
Be reminded that since time is less (60 < 128.3), then number of burgers produced will be less also: a little less than half, actually.
As seen above it is indeed less than of 144, or less than 72
Another method, not using PROPORTION:
If 144 burgers can be produced in 128.3 minutes, then = 1.122369447 burgers can be produced in 1 minute
If 1.122369447 burgers can be produced in 1 minute,
then 1.122369447 * 60, or 67.3421668 (round down to 67) burgers can be produced in 60 minutes
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