Final answer:
Maria can make 10.67 quarts of orange juice per minute by squeezing oranges by hand, when calculating her rate of juice production per minute.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student's question is about Maria's rate of making orange juice. Maria can make one 8-quart of orange juice in 3/4 minutes. To find out how much juice she can make in one minute, we set up a simple proportion based on her rate.
First, divide the amount of orange juice Maria can make by the time it takes to find the rate per minute: 8 quarts ÷ (3/4 minutes) = 8 quarts ÷ 0.75 minutes = 10.67 quarts per minute.
So, Maria can make 10.67 quarts of orange juice per minute by squeezing oranges by hand.