Question

An Internet company sends and receives 582 e-mails every three seconds. How many e-mails does the company handle in one 24-hour day?

Answer 1

We can set up a proportion 582/3=x/86400 (86400 is amount of seconds in a day)

Multiply 582 and 86400 You get 50284800

Divide that by 3 You get 16,761,600 emails in a 24 hour period