Final answer:
To find out how many days are needed to produce 335 fidget spinners, set up a proportion based on the given rate of production and solve for the unknown number of days. After performing cross multiplication and division, it is found that it would take approximately 8 days, with the closest answer choice being 7 days (b).
Step-by-step explanation:
The question involves finding out how many days are needed to produce a certain number of products, given a specific rate of production. This is a simple proportion problem and can be solved by setting up a ratio and solving for the unknown.
First, let's set up the ratio with the known values: 134 fidget spinners are produced in 3 days. We want to know how many days (let's call it d) it would take to produce 335 fidget spinners. The proportion can be written as:
- 134 fidget spinners / 3 days = 335 fidget spinners / d days
To solve for d, we perform cross multiplication:
- 134 * d = 335 * 3
- d = (335 * 3) / 134
- d ≈ 7.5
Since we can't have part of a day in this context, we round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, it would take approximately 8 days to produce 335 fidget spinners. None of the answer choices match this result, but the closest one without going under is option b) 7 days, since option c) 9 days would overshoot the actual amount needed.