Question

Ashley recently opened a store that uses only natural ingredients. She wants to advertise her products by distributing bags of samples in her neighborhood. It takes one person \dfrac{2}{3} 3 2 ​ start fraction, 2, divided by, 3, end fraction of a minute to prepare one bag. How many hours will it take Ashley and 444 of her friends to prepare 157515751575 bags of samples?

Answer 1

3 1/2

Explanation:

Answer 2

3 1/2 hours

Explanation:

This is a problem in units conversion. We want to get from bags to hours by way of minutes per bag. One bag takes an effort of 2/3 person·minute, so we need to divide the total effort by the number of persons and convert minutes to hours.

(1575 bags)×(2/3 person·min/bag)/(5 person)/(60 min/h)

= (1575)(2/3)(1/5)(1/60) h = 3.5

It will take the 5 of them about 3 1/2 hours to prepare 1575 bags.