Question

Addison can text 52 words in 8 minutes. At this rate, how many minutes would it take her to text 65 words? Fill out the table of equivalent ratios until you have found the value of x.

Answer 1

10 minutes

Explanation:

words : minutes

52 : 8

13 : 2

65 : 10

Answer 2

10 minutes

Explanation:

52/8= 6.5

Addison can text 6.5 words per minute. She needs to text 13 more words to get to her goal. In that case, it is 6.5 times 2. So she needs two more minutes to get to her goal. That means it takes her 10 minutes to complete the task.