Question

Suppose you are helping your mother to prepare dinner for 25 members. You can peel 2 onions per minute. You need 60 onions for preparing dinner. How long will it take you to finish the work if you have already peeled 24 onions?

Answer 1

To peel the remaining onions needed for dinner, it will take 18 minutes since there are 36 onions left to peel and the peeling rate is 2 onions per minute.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how long it will take to peel the remaining onions, we first need to calculate how many onions are left to peel. You have already peeled 24 onions, so we subtract that from the total of 60 onions needed:

• 60 onions - 24 peeled onions = 36 onions left to peel.

Next, since you can peel 2 onions per minute, we divide the number of onions left by the rate at which you can peel them:

• 36 onions / 2 onions per minute = 18 minutes.

Therefore, it will take 18 minutes to peel the rest of the onions.