SOLUTION: Rilco manufacturing produces 0.2 of a brick every tenth of a second. How many bricks can be produced in an 8 hour day?

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Question 1191289: Rilco manufacturing produces 0.2 of a brick every tenth of a second. How many bricks can be produced in an 8 hour day?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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0.2 brick /0.1 sec is 2 bricks per second, multiplying by 10
That is 120 bricks per minute, 7200 bricks per hour, multiplying first by 60 sec/min and 60 min/hour,
Multiply that by 8 hours and that is 57,600 bricks.