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Ashley can text 60 words in 45 seconds. At this rate, how many words can she text in 60 seconds?

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Let Ashley can text x words in 60 minutes. Then equation for x is,


\begin{gathered} (60)/(45)=(x)/(60) \\ x=(60\cdot60)/(45) \\ =80 \end{gathered}

Thus, Ashley text 80 words in 60 seconds.

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