Question

About 80% of the egg rolls sold in the US grocery stores are made in Houston Texas .A skilled wrapper can make 4,000 egg rolls in an 8 hour day .Bettie said this is about one egg roll a minute.Is her claim reasonable?Explain

Answer 1

let's take a peek, 1 hour has 60 minutes, namely if Bettie is correct, the fellow has wrapped 60 eggrolls in 1 hour, so in 8 hours that'd be

60+60+60+60+60+60+60+60 = 480 eggrolls.

what might had happened is that, Bettie got hit on the head by a falling branch of a tree on her way to pick up the newspaper.

Answer 2

If a skilled wrapped does 4000 egg rolls in an 8-hour day, then he does 4000 / 8 = 500 egg rolls per hour. It means that he can make 500 / 60 = 8,(33) egg rolls per minute. So Bettie's claim is not reasonable.

It would be reasonable if the wrapper would make 1 * 60 = 60 egg rolls per hour and 60 * 8 = 480 egg rolls in one shift. So she's far away from truth :)

Hope this helps!