Question 1191969: Each morning, a deli worker has to make several pies and peel a bucket of potatoes. On Monday, it took the worker 2 h to make the pies and an average of 1.5 min. To peel each potato. On Tuesday, the worker finished the work in the same amount of time,but it took 2.5 h to make the pies and an average of 1 min to peel each potato. About how many potatoes are in the bucket?
*What quantities do you know and how are they related to each other?
*How can you use the known and unknown quantities to write an equation for this situation?
Answer by Solver92311(821)   (Show Source):
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In the first place, you are given two different units of time measurement: hours and minutes. To make sense of the problem you need to either convert the hours given to minutes or vice versa. If you convert the hours to minutes, you avoid fractions and simplify the arithmetic.
2 hours = 120 minutes, and 2.5 hours is 150 minutes. If  represents the number of potatoes in the bucket, then the time, in minutes, to peel all of the potatoes on the first day is  . That quantity added to the 120 minutes spent making pies is the total elapsed time for the first day's work. Similarly, assuming that the number of potatoes in the bucket on the first day is equal to the number of potatoes in the bucket on the second day, the time, in minutes, to peel the potatoes is . That quantity added to the 150 minutes required to make the pies on the second day is the total elapsed time for the second day.
We are given that the total time on the first day is equal to the total time on the second day, hence:
Simply solve for
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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