Question

After much tinkering, Dalton's time machine finally works! For his first trip, Dalton will travel 25 years into the future. If his time machine uses 3 kilowatts of power to transport him 1 month into the future, how many kilowatts of power will it use for his first trip?

Answer 1

Explanation:

that would be awesome ! also the power consumption.

anyway,

1 year = 12 months

25 years = 25×12 = 300 months

3 Kw / 1 month is the power consumption ratio.

to use this to show us the power consumption for 25 years (300 months), we need to multiply the 1 month term by 300. and to keep the overall value of the ratio, we also need to multiply the numerator by the same factor (300) :

3/1 Kw/month × 300/300 = 900/300 Kw/months

so, his first trip of 25 years will use 900 Kw of power.