SOLUTION: On December 5 1985, a million balloons were released at Disneyland by hte city of Anaheim,California. If the ballons were released at the rate of 100 per second, how long did it ta

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Question 355308: On December 5 1985, a million balloons were released at Disneyland by hte city of Anaheim,California. If the ballons were released at the rate of 100 per second, how long did it take to release the million balloons? How do I come up with the answer to this?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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The basic formula is

Amount Released = Rate of Release * Time

So if A is the amount released, r is the rate, and t is the time, then A=rt. We know that A=1000000 and r=100. So plug this into the equation to get 1000000=100t and solve for 't' to get t=1000000%2F100=10000


So it will take 10,000 seconds (about 2 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds) for 1,000,000 balloons to be released at a rate of 100 balloons a second.