Question

Ursula Works At A Print Shop. She Uses A Printer That Can Print 12 Pages Per Minute. Yesterday She Started Printing Flyers For An Order. Today At 8 A.M. She Continued Working On The Order, And By 9 A.M. She Had 420 Flyers For The Order Completed. If The Job Was For 1500 Pages, At What Time Was It Finished?

Answer 1

10:30 am.

Explanation:

We have been given that Ursula uses a printer that can print 12 pages per minute.

Ursula started printing flyer for an order yesterday. Today at 8 am she continued working on the order, and by 9 a.m. she had 420 flyers for the order completed. The order was to print 1500 pages.

Let us find the number of pages left to print.

`\text{Number of the pages left to print}=1500-420`

`\text{Number of the pages left to print}=1080`

To find the time it will take to print 1080 pages we will divide number of pages left to print by number of pages printed per minute.

`\text{Time it will take to print 1080 pages}=\frac{1080\text{pages}}{\frac{\text{12 pages}}{\text{minute}}}}`

`\text{Time it will take to print 1080 pages}=\frac{1080\text{pages}}{12}* \frac{\text{minute}}{\text{page}}}`

`\text{Time it will take to print 1080 pages}=90\text{ minutes}`

90 minutes will be 1.5 hours , so 1.5 hours after 9 am will be 10:30 am. Therefore, the job was finished at 10:30 am.