SOLUTION: (a) At Hoffman's Bike Rentals, it costs $39 to rent a bike for 8 hours. How many hours of bike use does a customer get per dollar? (b) A color printer prints 5 pages i

Question 1082865: (a) At Hoffman's Bike Rentals, it costs
$39
to rent a bike for
8
hours. How many hours of bike use does a customer get per dollar?
(b) A color printer prints
5
pages in
3
minutes. How many pages does it print per minute?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
$39/8 hours=$1/x hours
cross multiply and 8=39x and x=8/39 hours per dollar or a little over 12 minutes. Another way is 39/8 or $4.875 per hour or 1/$4.875=0.205 hours per dollar (8/39)=0.205.
5 pages-3 minutes and want pages/minute
5/3=1.67 pages per minute.
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