Question

Maddy can enter the contact details of 50 customers per hour into the company's register. Nia can enter 60 per hour and Ollie can enter 75 per hour. How long would it take the three workers (working together) to enter the contact details of 8917 customers into the register?

Answer 1

When working together, Maddy, Nia, and Ollie can enter 185 customers' contact details into a register per hour. To complete 8917 entries, it would take them approximately 49 hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

To figure out how long the three workers(Maddy, Nia, Ollie) can enter the contact details of 8917 customers into the register, we first have to find out how many they could together do in an hour. Maddy can enter 50, Nia can enter 60, and Ollie can enter 75. That sums up to 185 entries per hour when they work together.

Now that we know how many they can do together per hour, we need to find out how many hours it would take them to complete 8917 entries. We do this by dividing the total number of entries, 8917, by the number of entries they can do per hour, 185.

This gives us: 8917 / 185 ≈ 48.20 hours. However, since we cannot have a fraction of an hour in this context, we therefore round up to 49 hours.

So, it would take approximately 49 hours for the three workers (working together) to enter the contact details of 8917 customers into the register.

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