Question

Joe, a programmer, writes 200 lines of code each day during a 5-day work week. This week, he had to take some time off, so he wrote 150 lines fewer on Friday. Each computer program he finishes has 9 lines of code. How many computer programs did Joe finish this week?

Answer 1

Joe finished approximately 94 computer programs this week.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find how many computer programs Joe finished this week, we need to calculate the total number of lines of code he wrote. From Monday to Thursday, Joe wrote 200 lines of code per day, totaling 4 days x 200 lines/day = 800 lines. On Friday, he wrote 150 lines fewer, so he wrote 200 - 150 = 50 lines of code that day.

The total number of lines of code Joe wrote this week is 800 + 50 = 850 lines. Since each computer program has 9 lines of code, we can find the number of computer programs by dividing the total number of lines by 9: 850 lines / 9 lines/program = 94.44 programs.

Since we cannot have a fraction of a program, we can conclude that Joe finished approximately 94 computer programs this week.