Question

A cleaning crew can clean 5 offices in 6hours.how many offices can they clean in 12 hours

Answer 1

So the crew can paint 10 offices in 12 hours.

Explanation:

Answer 2

set up a proportion like this

`(hours)/(offices)` =
`(hours)/(offices)`

So your proportion would be:

`(6)/(5) = (12)/(x)`
We put x for offices because they are asking for the number o offices a crew can paint in 12 hours, and also we don't know the number of offices they can paint in 12 hours
so we cross multiply and we get
6x=60, we got 60 by multiplying 12 and 5
Now we divide both sides by 6 and we get
x=10
S the crew can paint 10 offices in 12 hours.