Question

Lacy and Sydney are making paper flowers for the junior homecoming float. Lacy makes 6 flowers every minute and Sydney makes 4 flowers every minute. Both girls start at the same time. Write and solve an equation to find the number of minutes, m, it takes Lacy and Sydney to make a total of 600 flowers.

Answer 1

The total time taken to make 600 flowers are 60 minutes or 1 hour.

Explanation:

It is given that, Lucy and sydney start at the same time, at t = 0, both have made 0 flowers.

The speed (total flowers at end of time t) of them are as follows,

Lucy = 6(t)

Sydney = 4(t), where t is the time from start.

Thus, the total flowers at end are 600.

`6(t) + 4(t) = 600`

`10(t) = 600`

t = 60 minutes or 1 hour