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Beau can process 36 envelopes for a mailing in 24 minutes. At this rate, how many minutes will it take to process 120 envelopes? Please show how to solve it.

User Matt Booth
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This is a proportion problem

36/24 = 120/x

then do cross multiplication and you have x= 7.2
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