Question

Ary is writing thank you cards to everyone who came to her wedding. It takes her of an hour to write one thank you card. If it took her 8 hours to finish writing all of the cards, how many thank you cards did she write? 48 thank you cards 36 thank you cards 46 thank you cards 40 thank you cards

Answer 1

Ary wrote 8 thank you cards.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of thank you cards Ary wrote, we need to divide the total time it took her to write all the cards by the time it takes her to write one card. Given that it takes her 1 hour to write one card and it took her 8 hours to finish writing all the cards, we can divide 8 by 1 to find the number of cards.

8 ÷ 1 = 8

Therefore, Ary wrote 8 thank you cards.

Answer 2

The question doesn't specify which fraction of an hour it takes Ary to write a thank you card.

Let's imagine that it takes her 1/4 of an hour to write a thank you card.

In such case, in one hour she will be able to write 4 thank you cards.

and therefore in 8 hours, ishe will be able to write 32 thank you cards (8 times 4 cards).

If it takes her 1/6 of an hour to write a thank you card, then in hone hour she will write a total of 6 thank you cards, and therefore, in 8 hours she will be able to write 8 times 6 thank you cards: 8 x 6 = 48 thank you cards.

If it takes her 1/5 of an hour to write a thank you card, then in hone hour she will write a total of 5 thank you cards, and therefore, in 8 hours she will be able to write 8 times 5 thank you cards: 8 x 5 = 40 thank you cards.

You just use this type of criteria to solve the problem whatever the fraction of the hour it takes to write one card as they specify in the question.