Question

Ashley recently opened a store that sells only natural ingredients. She wants to advertise her products by distributing bags of samples in her neighborhood. It takes one person 2 minutes to prepare one bag. How many hours will it take to prepare 900 bags of samples if Ashley and 5 of her friends do the work?

Answer 1

Pull out the key details in the word problem,

1. It takes two minutes for one person to prepare one bag
2. she wants to make 900 bags
3. She has 5 friends helping her plus her, so 6 people
4.your trying to figure out how long it will take.
so lets find out how many bags a person cane make in one hour. there are 60min in an hour and it takes two minutes for one person to make a bag. So you would do,
60/2=30 one person can make 30 bags an hour.
lets times 30 by 6 so we can find out how many bags 6 people can make in an hour,
30x6=180
Now that we know that all together they can make 180 bogs in an hour, you would divide 900 by 180 to find out how many hours it will take to make 900 bags,
900/180=5
so it would take 5 hours of work to get 900 bags done.
hope this helps!! : )

Answer 2

Answer: 5 hours

Explanation:

Given : Time taken by each person to prepare one bag = 2 minutes

Total people : 6 [ Ashley and 5 friends]

Total bags to prepare =900

If each person is making equal number of bags, then the number of bags each person make :-

`(900)/(6)=150`

Now, time taken by each people to make 150 bags :-

`2*150=300\text{ minutes}`

Since 1 hour = 60 minutes

`\Rightarrow\ \text{1 minute}=(1)/(60)\text{ hour}`

Then ,
`300\text{ minutes}=(300)/(60)=5\text{ hours}`

Hence, it will take 5 hours to prepare 900 bags of samples if Ashley and 5 of her friends do the work.