Question

6) A ferris wheel can accommodate 45 people in 30 minutes. How many peoplecould ride the ferris wheel in 3 hours? What was that rate per hour?

Answer 1

The ferris well can accomodate 45 people in 30 minutes.

You need to calculate how many people you can accomodate in 3 hours.

To do so the first step is to express the 3 hours in minutes:

You know that 1 hour has 60 minutes, multiply 60 by 3 to determine how many minutes there are in 3 hours:

`60\cdot3=180`

3 hours equal to 180 minutes

Now you can use cross multiplication to determine the number of people that can ride the ferris well in three hours.

30 min_____45 people

180min_____x people

`\begin{gathered} (45)/(30)=(x)/(180) \\ x=((45)/(30))180 \\ x=270 \end{gathered}`

The ferris well can accomodate 270 persons in 3 hours.