Question

Suppose that six people can stuff Flyers into 500 envelopes in five minutes. Assume all people work at the same steady rate. The relationship between the number of people stuffing envelopes in the number of envelopes they can stuff in five minutes is what type of relationship? How can you tell? Make a table and a graph to show the relationship and explain how to find several of the entries. Including entry for five people

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

6 people stuff 500 envelopes in 5 minutes

2) If they work at a steady rate, there must be an inverse relationship between those people.

So, we can set an inverse relationship 1/n, since n is the number times a person can stuff envelope

Therefore we can fill our table:

1 person takes 30 minutes

2 people take 15 minutes

6 people take 5 minutes

3 people take 10 minutes

4 people take 7.5 minutes

5 people take 6 minutes

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