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Ned mows a 450 square foot garden in 15 minutes. How many square feet of the garden does he mow in 1 minute?

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30 square feet of the garden in one minute
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Answer:

He mows 30 square feet of the garden in 1 minute.

Explanation:

This equation is from a topic called rates. Which would help us to be able to determine the rate at which Ned works with respect to time consumed.

Ned mows a 450 square foot garden within 15 minutes.

Thus, he would mow
(450)/(15) square foot of the garden in 1 minute.

He mows 30 square feet of the garden in 1 minute.

This shows the actual rate at which Ned worked per time. So we could determine how he worked by considering an increasing value of time.

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