Question

On Tuesday , the wait to ride the roller coaster was 40 minutes. The roller coaster is the fastest ride at the fair .The line of people waiting was 100 meters long . How long would you expect to wait if the line 50 meters long.

Answer 1

If the line is 50 meters long, the wait time would be 20 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this problem, we have a line of people waiting to ride a roller coaster. On Tuesday, when the line was 100 meters long, the wait time was 40 minutes. We need to find out how long the wait would be if the line was only 50 meters long.

To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion.

Let x be the wait time when the line is 50 meters long.

40/100 = x/50

To solve for x, we can cross multiply and then divide:

40 * 50 = 100 * x

2000 = 100x

x = 20

Therefore, if the line is 50 meters long, the wait time would be 20 minutes.