Question

An individual is making chicken-stuffed peppers for the gluten-intolerant and pita breads for the vegetarians in a cooking class. Each chicken-stuffed pepper takes twice as long to make as a pita bread. The individual needs to feed 3 gluten-intolerant and 8 vegetarian classmates. The individual has 7 hours, how much time can they spend on each chicken-stuffed pepper?

Answer 1

The individual can spend half an hour (30 minutes) on each chicken-stuffed pepper.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how much time the individual can spend on each chicken-stuffed pepper, we need to find the total time available and divide it by the number of peppers.

Given that each chicken-stuffed pepper takes twice as long as a pita bread and the individual needs to feed 3 gluten-intolerant and 8 vegetarian classmates, we can calculate the total time needed for the peppers and pita breads.

The total time needed for the peppers can be represented as 2x, where x is the time needed for a pita bread.

Let's assume the time needed for a pita bread is t. Therefore, the time needed for a chicken-stuffed pepper becomes 2t.

Since the individual needs to feed 3 gluten-intolerant and 8 vegetarian classmates, the total time needed is :

3(2t) + 8t

= 6t + 8t

= 14t.

Since the individual has 7 hours available, we can set up the equation 14t = 7 and solve for t.

Dividing both sides of the equation by 14, we find that t = 7/14

= 1/2.

Therefore, the individual can spend half an hour (30 minutes) on each chicken-stuffed pepper.