Question

At a potato chip factory there were 90 machines working with each machine able to produce 95 chips a minute. If this is enough potoato chips to fill 5 shipping boxes, how many chips are there per box?

Answer 1

To solve this problem, we can use the following steps:

Determine the total number of chips produced per minute by all the machines:

Total chips per minute = number of machines * chips per minute per machine

= 90 * 95

= 8,550 chips per minute

Determine the total number of chips produced in one hour:

Total chips per hour = Total chips per minute * number of minutes in an hour

= 8,550 * 60

= 513,000 chips per hour

Determine the total number of chips produced in 5 hours (the time it takes to fill 5 shipping boxes):

Total chips for 5 hours = Total chips per hour * number of hours

= 513,000 * 5

= 2,565,000 chips

Determine the number of chips per shipping box by dividing the total number of chips by the number of shipping boxes:

Chips per box = Total chips / Number of boxes

= 2,565,000 / 5

= 513,000 chips per box

Therefore, there are 513,000 chips per box when 90 machines produce potato chips at a rate of 95 chips per minute.