SOLUTION: There are 500 medical records that need to be imported into a new Medical Record System. 269 are female and 231 are male. Candi imports 169 records per day. Her goal is 200 a day.
Question 1195100: There are 500 medical records that need to be imported into a new Medical Record System. 269 are female and 231 are male. Candi imports 169 records per day. Her goal is 200 a day. How many days will it take Candi to import all of the medical records. Answer by ikleyn(52817) (Show Source):
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There are 500 medical records that need to be imported into a new Medical Record System.
269 are female and 231 are male. Candi imports 169 records per day. Her goal is 200 a day.
How many days will it take Candi to import all of the medical records.
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Solve the problem in two steps.
(1) First, divide 500 by 169: = 2.959 days.
It says, that the job will take 2.959 days.
(2) To get the answer to the problem's question, round this decimal number to
the closest greater integer number, which is 3.
Answer. In 3 days.
Solved.
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Notice that only two numbers in the problem are relevant to the question:
- total job amount of 500 records, and
- the rate of the work of 169 records per day.
The rest of the numbers and the words are irrelevant to the problem,
and are introduced with the only goal to confuse the reader.
