Question

A pasta factory made 1 pound of pasta in 53 minutes. To the nearest hundredth of a pound, how much pasta, on average, did the factory make each minute?

Answer 1

The factory makes approximately 0.02 pounds of pasta per minute.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much pasta the factory makes per minute, we can divide the amount of pasta made (1 pound) by the time it took (53 minutes). So, the factory makes approximately 0.02 pounds of pasta per minute.

Answer 2

.02 because 1÷53=.0188 and rounded to the nearest hundredth would be .02