Question

Megan uses these instructions to cook the turkey cook for 20 minutes per kg,cook for another 90 minutes ,take out of oven leave, for 30 minutes ,the turkey will be ready to eat.The turkey weighs 5.4kg Megan says i will start to cook the turkey at 2:30pm it will be ready to eat at 6pm is Megan correct?

Answer 1

Megan is not correct

Explanation:

Since it takes 20 minutes to cook per kg, a total of 5.4kg will take 20 * 5.4 minutes to cook = 108 minutes to cook

Now, to cook for another 90 minutes. Time now is thus 90 + 108 = 198 minutes

Again, she is to leave for 30 minutes

So therefore, total time spent in cooking the chicken = 198 minutes + 30 minutes = 228 minutes

So the difference in time between 2:30 pm and 6pm is 3 hrs : 30 minutes

There are 60 minutes in an hour , so total amount of minutes is 3(60) + 30 = 180 + 30 = 210 minutes

What we calculated in minutes is more than what Megan says the cooking will take. So Megan isn’t correct