Question

It takes Mike’s 40 minutes to type and spell check six pages find how many pages he can type and spell check in one. Five hours round answer to the nearest 10th

Answer 1

Ok, so it takes Mike 40 minutes to work on 6 pages. Let's calculate how many he types in 1.5 hours.

In order to calculate that, we'll use a cross product. But first, let's see how many minutes 1.5 hours are correspondent to:

1 hours - 60 minutes

1.5 hours - x

x= 60*1.5 = 90 minutes.

So:

40 min - 6 pages

90 min - x

40x = 6*90

40x = 540

x= 13.5 pages

He will type and spell check 13.5 pages.