Question

The owner expects you to hand wash each coffee pot before the coffee shop opens. It takes 10 minutes for all of the coffee pots to dry. You spend 82 minutes washing and drying the pots. It takes 4 ½ minutes to clean a coffee pot. How many coffee pots are there?

Answer 1

Total number of coffee pot = 16 pots

Explanation:

Given:

Time taken for drying all coffee pot = 10 minutes

Total time taken for cleaning and drying coffee pot = 82 minutes

Time taken for clean a coffer pot = 4 ½ minutes = 4.5 minutes

Find:

Total number of coffee pot

Computation:

Total time taken for cleaning = Total time taken for cleaning and drying coffee pot - Time taken for drying all coffee pot

Total time taken for cleaning = 82 - 10

Total time taken for cleaning = 72 minutes

Total number of coffee pot = Total time taken for cleaning / Time taken for clean a coffer pot

Total number of coffee pot = 72 / 4.5

Total number of coffee pot = 16 pots