Question

Ratios and Rates word problems

A Ferris wheel accommodate 75 people in 30 minutes . how many people could ride the Ferris wheel in 6 hours? what was the rate per hour?

Answer 1

900 people

Explanation:

One hour is 60 minutes, and the number of thirty minutes in an hour is two. To get the number of thirty minutes in 6 hours, you would do 2 x 6, which is 12. After this, you would do 12 x 75 since 75 people ride it in 30 minutes. This equals 900.

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Answer 2

Answer: The ferris wheel could accomodate 900 people in 6 hours. The rate per hour was 150 people.

Explanation:

To start off we can find the number of people by deciding how many time slots of 30 minutes are in 6 hours. Since 30 minutes is half an hour we just do 2 times 6 which would give us 12. Since 75 people can fit in 30 minutes then we do 12 times 75 for the whole 6 hours which comes out to 900.

Once we have the number of people in 6 hours then we can find the hourly rate. To do this we just take the number of people (900) in the whole time (6 hours) and divide 6 from 900 which would give us the hourly rate of 150.