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Eddy Jones Pottery produces serving bowls among other items. If they reengineer their automated equipment, a serving bowl can be formed in just 1.5 min instead of 2.5 min. If Eddy Jones Pottery uses the reengineered equipment, how many more bowls could they produce in one 8-hr shift

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Answer and Explanation:

Old equipment=2.5 mins per serving bowl

New equipment=1.5 mins per serving bowl

With old equipment, in one hour Eddy Jones can produce 60/2.5= 24 serving bowls

With new equipment, in one hour Eddy Jones can produce 60/1.5= 40 serving bowls

With old equipment, in 8 hours Eddy Jones can produce 24*8=192 serving bowls

With new equipment, in 8 hours Eddy Jones can produce 40*8=320 serving bowls

Therefore in 8 hours with new equipment Eddy Jones will produce 320-192= 128 more serving bowls than with old equipment.

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