SOLUTION: Can you help me with this word problem? For those people with highly sensitive skin, an ultra-violet, or UV, rating of 6 will cause sunburn after 10 min. Given that the number of

Question 518233: Can you help me with this word problem?
For those people with highly sensitive skin, an ultra-violet, or UV, rating of 6 will cause sunburn after 10 min. Given that the number of minutes it takes to burn t varies inversely as the UV rating u, how long will it take a highly sensitive person to burn on a day with a UV rating of 4?
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or those people with highly sensitive skin, an ultra-violet, or UV, rating of 6 will cause sunburn after 10 min.
Given that the number of minutes it takes to burn t varies inversely as the UV rating u, how long will it take a highly sensitive person to burn on a day with a UV rating of 4?
:
let t = time to burn on a 4UV day
;
Varies inversely so we can write it
=
Cross multiply
4t = 60
t =
t = 15 min
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